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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. Who does Bill start buying drugs from in this chapter?
(a) Jack
(b) Pat
(c) Mary
(d) Ray

2. What is a person that a lush robs called?
(a) A mark
(b) A fanny
(c) A slag
(d) A victim

3. What did Bill hate about the army?
(a) The lack of money
(b) The routine
(c) The rules
(d) The lack of women

4. Which of the following was a nervous condition from which Bill suffered?
(a) Over eating
(b) Bed wetting
(c) Stammer
(d) Nightmares

5. With what does the sailor say narcotics are connected?
(a) Capitalism
(b) Socialism
(c) Fascism
(d) Communism

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character is arrested at the beginning of this segment?

2. What is a lush worker?

3. Which of the following do Bill, Roy and Herman not spend their time doing?

4. Where does Bill find himself stranded?

5. Where is Bill being watched by agents?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Bill Gains and Bill do with the junk when they purchase it?

2. What does Bill's life become like while he is on junk?

3. Describe Bill's early life.

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

5. How do things change when Hermann is arrested?

6. Describe the disturbance Doolie creates in the fifth section.

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

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

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

10. What is Bill's opinion of heroin dealers?

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