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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. Who gets the whole group caught by the police in Chapter 3?
(a) William Lee
(b) The Rube
(c) Neal Cassady
(d) The Vigilante

2. What word refers to the receiving of pleasure from acts involving the infliction or reception of pain or humiliation?
(a) Misogyny
(b) Pedophilia
(c) Androgyny
(d) Sadomasochism

3. What do the freed addicts raid once they are freed from the psychiatric hospital?
(a) Candy stores
(b) Electronics stores
(c) Drug stores
(d) Pet stores

4. What is William S. Burroughs’s middle name?
(a) Stephen
(b) Samuel
(c) Seward
(d) Stanley

5. According to William, what is lost during both the using of drugs and the forced rehabilitation of a person?
(a) Money and games
(b) Essential freedom
(c) Personal beauty
(d) Essential humanity

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 7, who does William claim is a junkie?

2. What does Dr. Benway use to operate on a woman in Chapter 7?

3. Which of the following is a white, crystalline, narcotic powder derived from morphine and formerly used as an analgesic and sedative?

4. Where is Joselito’s diagnosing doctor from?

5. The men and boys involved in the orgy are described as being of different what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What are the two nonhuman creatures described by the author in “The Black Meat”?

2. Why do the Sailor and “Fats” Terminal meet in “The Black Meat”? What takes place in their meeting?

3. What is symbolized by the Professor’s lecture in “Campus of Interzone University”?

4. How does William deal with the deaths of his friends in “The Rube”? Why is this significant?

5. How is the plot structure of “And Start West” different from the plot structures of the other vignettes in the novel?

6. How does the narrative style and plot structure change in “Hassan’s Rumpus Room”?

7. What happens when William Lee meets Miguel in “Lazarus Go Home”?

8. What is symbolized by Dr. Benway’s operation in “Hospital”?

9. What is symbolized by in Annexia and Freeland?

10. What is the significance of Vigilante’s character in the novel? How does the Vigilante change?

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