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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 use every day?
(a) Marijuana
(b) Benzedrine
(c) Prostitutes
(d) Junk

2. Who bails Bill out?
(a) Mary
(b) His son
(c) Herman
(d) His wife

3. To where does Mary move?
(a) Texas
(b) Mexico
(c) Florida
(d) California

4. Where does Whitey stab Subway Slim?
(a) In the arm
(b) In the back
(c) In the stomach
(d) In the leg

5. Where is Bill arrested in this segment?
(a) In his car
(b) In a hospital
(c) In a park
(d) His apartment

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Gains tell Bill to be?

2. To what drug did Bill become addicted?

3. Who does Bill start buying drugs from in this chapter?

4. What kind of transport do Bill and Mary use to travel around the city?

5. What does Doolie say Nick is doing?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is Bill's opinion on marijuana?

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

7. In what way is homosexuality a major theme in the novel?

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

9. Why did Bill turn to petty crime?

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

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