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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 sign for the police in this segment?
(a) A check
(b) A prescription
(c) A statement
(d) A letter

2. Who does Bill meet at the beginning of this segment?
(a) Old Ike
(b) Norris
(c) Horace
(d) Frederick Fancy

3. Who does Bill communicate with at the end of this segment?
(a) Pat
(b) The police
(c) His attorney
(d) His wife

4. To whom is Burroughs letter written?
(a) His wife
(b) His publisher
(c) Allen Ginsburg
(d) His son

5. Who do the police threaten to incarcerate?
(a) Bill's parents
(b) Bill's pet dog
(c) Bill's wife and children
(d) Bill's siblings

Short Answer Questions

1. For what does Rollins write Bill a prescription?

2. Which city does Bill arrive in at the beginning of this chapter?

3. Who appears at Bill's apartment?

4. Why does Bill not argue with the police?

5. What does Bill search madly for when he gets home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Of what does this final section of the novel consist?

2. How is drink affecting Bill in a bad way in Segment 10?

3. What information does Gains bring about Bill's old acquaintances?

4. What is Bill's situation by the end of this segment?

5. Why do Pat and Bill decide to stop selling drugs?

6. How does the government help Bill and Old Ike continue their habits?

7. What does Bill say happens to time when using morphine?

8. Describe the drug trade in Mexico.

9. Summarize the novel.

10. What is the purpose of what seems an irrelevant segment?

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