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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 do junkies hate to do?
(a) Walk
(b) Bathe
(c) Kiss
(d) Sleep

2. Which of Bill's customers buys drugs for others?
(a) Jack
(b) Tony
(c) Nick
(d) Ray

3. Who are Bill and Mary looking for as they drive around the city?
(a) Jack
(b) Frankie Malone
(c) A prostitute
(d) Drug dealers

4. Which of the following is a character Bill meets at the apartment?
(a) Franklin
(b) Benny
(c) Davis
(d) Joey

5. What is the name of the narrator?
(a) William Burroughs
(b) William Lee
(c) Bill Tornly
(d) Jack Hobbs

Short Answer Questions

1. About what do Mary and Bill initially talk?

2. Which character is said to be teetering on the edge of death?

3. With which character does Lee leave the bar?

4. How does Bill describe his athletic performance at school?

5. What drug does Bill take in his apartment?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Bill turn to petty crime?

2. Why does Gains not care about their dealer shortselling them?

3. What is Bill's opinion on marijuana?

4. Describe Bill's time in the prison facility.

5. How does Bill try to reduce his heroin habit?

6. What kind of relationship do Bill and Pat develop in the sixth section?

7. What did Bill do when he came back from Europe?

8. Describe the story about the mark who woke up while he was being robbed.

9. Describe the fight that occurs in the opening ten pages.

10. Who is Jack?

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