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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. According to the narrator in Story 1, all of the following people had given the narrator drugs except for who?
(a) The Indian.
(b) The Salesman.
(c) The Student.
(d) The Teacher.

2. What does the narrator's "new companion" in Story 2 want from the narrator?
(a) Money.
(b) Drugs.
(c) A place to stay.
(d) A ride home.

3. How is the narrator receiving money in Story 3?
(a) By prostituting himself.
(b) By being a drug dealer.
(c) By stealing a dead man's social security checks.
(d) By working as a construction worker.

4. Who is Tim Bishop?
(a) Blue's boyfriend.
(b) The owner of the farm house.
(c) The narrator's best friend.
(d) McInnes' brother.

5. Who was the naked woman flying over the river behind the boat in Story 5?
(a) Wayne's ex-fiance.
(b) Wayne's girlfriend.
(c) Wayne's wife.
(d) Wayne's daughter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What virus does the narrator of Story 4 reveal McInnes has?

2. In Story 5, whose ex-girlfriend did the narrator end up marrying?

3. Story 3 opens with the narrator seeing ________ in an olive-green three-piece suit, with his blond hair combed back and his face shining and suffering.

4. In Story 2, what color is the narrator's vehicle?

5. According to the narrator of Story 3, at ________ some of the most terrible things happen to him.

Short Essay Questions

1. The most telling image is the one quoted in Story 1 that of the narrator being showered with human blood. What does being "showered with human blood" represent?

2. Discuss the narrator's relationship with the three women in Story 5.

3. Analyze the family who picks up the hitchhiking narrator in Story 1. What are some characteristics of this family?

4. Who is McInnes? What has happened to him in Story 4?

5. Discuss the scene where the narrator and his friends meet their new companion in Story 2.

6. What can the passive reaction of the trucker in Story 1 be seen as a metaphoric representation of?

7. Discuss the mini-theme of the manifestation of nature a seen in Story 1.

8. Describe the three people the narrator first introduces to the reader at the beginning of Story 1. How does the narrator interact with these three people?

9. Who is Richard and Tom? Discuss the friendship the narrator has with these two men.

10. In Story 2, what three stops does the narrator's new companion have the narrator make? What occurs at each of the three stops?

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