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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Candy and the narrator watch so much TV?

2. Where does Candy find most of her clients?

3. Why does Candy move out of the warehouse?

4. Where is the narrator in his important dream?

5. What does David think he is paying for when the narrator scams him?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator do in the postal office that gets him arrested?

2. What does the boat dream symbolize?

3. How does Casper living with the narrator drastically change his life?

4. What surprises the narrator most when he visits Candy at the hospital after his stay with Sally?

5. What does the narrator feel swallowed up by in Chapter 14?

6. What does Candy say when the narrator calls her from Sally's house, and what does the narrator think of this?

7. What does the narrator use his Femoral vein for, and what does this indicate?

8. What does the narrator ask for at the hospital while getting stitches, and how does the doctor reply?

9. What happens when the narrator meets the man in the BMW?

10. What does the narrator say insanity is?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What were the narrator's two loves, and how did he balance his need for both in his life?

Essay Topic 2

What is the boat dream, and what does it mean? How does the narrator respond to this dream?

Essay Topic 3

What happens to Candy when she comes off of heroin, and why? How does the narrator respond to this?

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