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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 Bill refer to doctors as?
(a) Posh pushers
(b) Lords
(c) Croakers
(d) Dolittles

2. Which of the following is not a person drinking at the bar?
(a) Roy
(b) Whitey
(c) Herman
(d) Johnny

3. What does Mary's disease do to her bones?
(a) Makes them brittle
(b) Dissolves them
(c) Fractures them
(d) Strengthens them

4. What is in the boxes Norton gives to Bill?
(a) Matches
(b) Cocaine
(c) Codeine
(d) Morphine syrettes

5. Who does Bill buy drinks for in this segment?
(a) Miles Davis
(b) A prostitute
(c) A sailor
(d) A pimp

Short Answer Questions

1. Name one of the customers to which Nick introduces Bill.

2. Where does Bill keep his supply of heroin?

3. What city does Bill travel to after Texas?

4. What put Bill off homosexual artists?

5. With whom does Subway Slim leave the bar?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Bill's time in the apartment in the opening chapters.

2. What happens to Marvin when he takes junk?

3. Describe the character of Nick.

4. In what way could the novel be said to be junk driven?

5. How does Bill change his life at the beginning of page 34?

6. Why is Herman arrested?

7. What does Bill state are the problems with marijuana dealing?

8. What do Bill and Mary do in the apartment?

9. Describe Bill's meeting with the sailor.

10. What is the difference between Burroughs' use of dialogue when talking to the police and his use of dialogue when talking to friends?

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