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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's wife say he is like while using junk?
(a) Angry
(b) Broke and depressed
(c) Fun, but impotent
(d) Bored and boring

2. What does Bill say he has visions of in this chapter?
(a) Blood
(b) Doom
(c) Death
(d) Jesus

3. Who stops Bill from killing the answer to #149?
(a) Pat
(b) His son
(c) His wife
(d) Old Ike

4. Why does Bill hire a lawyer?
(a) To keep the police away
(b) To secure resident papers
(c) To sue a drug dealer
(d) To get him off his charge back in the states

5. What does Bill attempt to kill in this segment?
(a) His car
(b) His son
(c) His wife
(d) His cat

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Bill and Pat decide to stop selling?

2. What is the name of the second doctor Ike fetches?

3. What does Bill study as a hobby?

4. For what does Rollins write Bill a prescription?

5. Who do the police threaten to incarcerate?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Of what do appendices 4, 5, 6 and 7 consist?

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

4. How does Rollins help Bill make a recovery from drugs and alcohol?

5. Summarize the novel.

6. What are Bill's relationship with drugs in Segment 11?

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

8. Describe the drug trade in Mexico.

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

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

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