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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. What is the name of the treatment that can get Alex out of prison fast?

2. What does the top policeman call Alex's prison cell?

3. What does Alex offer to give the new prisoner?

4. What does the old woman threaten to do to Alex?

5. What lie does Alex tell the woman who answers the door?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How does Alex explain his leadership to the others? How do you think they feel about this?

3. What kind of dream does Alex have when he sleeps in the prison cell?

4. What are the pictures that the doctors show Alex of? How does he react?

5. Why is the philosophical man in the Korova oblivious to what is around him? What does Alex think of him?

6. How does Alex feel about music?

7. What does the drunk outside the Duke of New York think about the world?

8. Describe the problems that Alex has with the new prisoner before the guards arrive.

9. What problems does Alex have in his fight with the old woman?

10. What is Alex's usual reaction to violence? What does Dr. Branom say the normal reaction to violence is?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay that expresses your opinion on what should be done about the rising prison population in America.

Essay Topic 2

Write an essay that explains what life would be like if it was impossible to derive pleasure from things such as music, art, sex, and even violence.

Essay Topic 3

Write an essay that details any psychological disorders that Alex may have, with evidence from the novel.

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