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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. For what kind of drug do Bill and Old Ike ask the doctors to write prescriptions?
(a) Cocaine
(b) Codeine
(c) Morphine
(d) Amphetime

2. What does Bill do against medical advice?
(a) Takes heroin
(b) Leaves the medical facility
(c) Eats ice cream
(d) Drinks alcohol

3. Who does Old Ike complain about in this chapter?
(a) Subway Slim
(b) His Wife
(c) Bill's wife
(d) Black Bastard

4. Bill's wife has moved to ________________.
(a) Acapulco
(b) England
(c) New Orleans
(d) New York

5. What does Bill go home to fetch in this section?
(a) A pen
(b) A photograph
(c) A knife
(d) A revolver

6. Yage is from _________________.
(a) North America
(b) South America
(c) Australasia
(d) Europe

7. What do the police do to people with injection scars?
(a) Arrest them
(b) Chain them to a radiator
(c) Beat them up
(d) Shoot them

8. For what does Rollins write Bill a prescription?
(a) Morphine
(b) Antacids
(c) Codeine
(d) Benzedrine

9. What does Bill read about in the text from the manuscript?
(a) A quack medical treatment
(b) His parents death
(c) Junkies banned in subways
(d) His brother's success

10. With what does Lupita cut her drugs?
(a) Milk sugar
(b) Treacle
(c) Pantopon
(d) Sand

11. What country does Bill travel to in search of yage?
(a) Argentina
(b) Columbia
(c) Brazil
(d) Australia

12. From what does the second doctor order Bill to stay away?
(a) Women
(b) Alcohol
(c) Drugs
(d) Homosexuals

13. What does Bill say he has visions of in this chapter?
(a) Doom
(b) Jesus
(c) Blood
(d) Death

14. For what does Old Ike receive a permit?
(a) To drink alcohol on the street
(b) To buy morphine
(c) To deal drugs
(d) To live in the street

15. What kind of glossary does Bill present at the end of the book?
(a) Location used in the novel
(b) Slang
(c) Characters in the novel
(d) Medical terms for drugs

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the lawyer want to use as evidence that Bill was not legally competent when he signed the statement?

2. What character does Bill meet again in this segment?

3. What does Bill search madly for when he gets home?

4. Where does Bill live in Texas?

5. What does Old Ike begin purchasing from pharmacies each month?

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