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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Alex wake to?
(a) Dim, with his chain.
(b) Real trouble.
(c) A goat with a man's head.
(d) His parents.

2. On what floor of the house could the gang see a light?
(a) Second floor.
(b) Third floor.
(c) Basement.
(d) The ground floor.

3. What does Alex threaten to do to Billyboy?
(a) Rip out his keeshkas.
(b) Have his yarbles off.
(c) Kill him.
(d) Razrez his litso.

4. Who says that big money is available?
(a) Will the English.
(b) Steve the Yankee.
(c) Pierre the French.
(d) Albert the Dutch.

5. What do you get when you cram criminals together?
(a) Concentrated criminality.
(b) Violence upon violence.
(c) A chance for rehabilitation.
(d) Safer streets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Alex's prisoner number?

2. How do the officers describe Alex when he looks in the mirror?

3. Where does Alex live?

4. What is the title of the book that the man in the cottage is writing?

5. Who said some harsh words about Alex?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Alex blame F. Alexander and his friends?

2. Why is there disagreement among Alex's audience?

3. Describe the relationship that Alex has with his other cellmates before the new prisoner arrives.

4. What do you think the appearance of Dim and Billyboy add to the novel's theme of authority?

5. Why is Alex surprised to see that Dim and Billyboy are police officers?

6. What does Alex think of F. Alexander?

7. What does the man have planned for Alex?

8. What happens in the dream Alex has? What does this foreshadow?

9. What does Alex write out for the police? How do they react?

10. What does Dr. Brodsky say that Alex will be?

(see the answer keys)

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