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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 tendencies did the army say Bill exhibited?
(a) Psychotic
(b) Hetrosexual
(c) Sociopathic
(d) Homosexual

2. What does Bill begin to do again after eight days?
(a) Drink
(b) Eat
(c) Make love
(d) Bathe

3. What does Bill use every day?
(a) Benzedrine
(b) Prostitutes
(c) Junk
(d) Marijuana

4. Where does Roy go to in this segment?
(a) University
(b) Rehabilitation
(c) Mexico
(d) Texas

5. What kind of transport do Bill and Mary use to travel around the city?
(a) A train
(b) A bus
(c) A tram
(d) A taxi

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Bill pay for his habit?

2. What does marijuana make people unfit to do?

3. Which of Bill's customers buys drugs for others?

4. What did Bill study at university?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Lee and Roy become increasingly friendly in the opening ten pages?

2. What happens to all the characters mentions in the first 20 pages?

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

4. Describe Bill's early life.

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

6. What is Bill's opinion on marijuana?

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

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

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

10. How does Bill meet Mary?

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