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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does yage stimulate?

2. Which two people take the answer to #153 away from Bill?

3. What does Burroughs present in Appendix 2?

4. What does Burrough present in Appendix 3?

5. Where does Bill go when he is discharged?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Bill's wife's main complaint about his habit?

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

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

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

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

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

7. Of what does Appendix 3 consist?

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

9. Describe the drug trade in Mexico.

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write a 500-word essay either in support or against the following statement: Junky loses its impact as a important document about drug addiction due to its cult status.

Essay Topic 2

Examine withdrawal from heroin as described in the book.

1) What does Lee feel and suffer during withdrawal?

2) How can withdrawal from heroin be made easier?

Essay Topic 3

Junky is written in the first person with Bill Lee as narrator. Why do you think Burroughs chose to write the story in the first person? How do you think the meaning of the story would have changed if it were written in the third person?

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