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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. Why do Bill and Pat decide to stop selling?
(a) The police are beginning to target addicts.
(b) Their friend has an overdose.
(c) They find God.
(d) Bill has an overdose.

2. What does Burroughs present in Appendix 2?
(a) The glossary
(b) Graphs
(c) The original introduction
(d) Photographs

3. With what does Lupita cut her drugs?
(a) Milk sugar
(b) Pantopon
(c) Treacle
(d) Sand

4. Bill's wife has moved to ________________.
(a) New York
(b) Acapulco
(c) England
(d) New Orleans

5. What does Bill do against medical advice?
(a) Eats ice cream
(b) Leaves the medical facility
(c) Takes heroin
(d) Drinks alcohol

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill go home to fetch in this section?

2. What does Bill sign for the police in this segment?

3. Who does Bill hire in this segment?

4. Who takes Bill away from the bar and onto the streets?

5. Where does Bill go when he is discharged?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Bill do after he is released from prison?

3. What does Bill discuss with the police in the interview in section 7?

4. In what way do the police treat Bill badly?

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

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

7. Describe the drug trade in Mexico.

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

9. What is yage?

10. Describe Bill's arrest.

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