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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. After leaving general surgery, which of the following did Dr. Benway specialize in?
(a) Law
(b) Botany
(c) Abortion
(d) Pediatrics

2. What is the university campus full of?
(a) Reptiles
(b) Ostriches
(c) Barnyard animals
(d) Mugwumps

3. NG Joe became an addict after an attack of what disorder?
(a) AIDS
(b) Tuberculosis
(c) Bang-utot
(d) Syphilis

4. William imagines a conversation between an Inspector and whom in Chapter 8?
(a) A dentist
(b) A priest
(c) A taxidermist
(d) A reporter

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When was the Rime of the Ancient Mariner published?

2. In what year was Naked Lunch originally published?

3. What is William S. Burroughs’s middle name?

4. What does the Professor encourage his students to express freely in Chapter 10?

5. The Vigilante is described as though he were located where in Chapter 2?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is symbolized by in Annexia and Freeland?

3. How is Dr. Benway viewed by those around him?

4. How is the setting of “Campus of Interzone University” described? What is the Professor lecturing about at the beginning of the chapter?

5. What is symbolized by the disease Bang-utot in the narrative?

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

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

8. What does the character of Joselito represent symbolically?

9. Where is William traveling in the beginning of “The Rube”? How does the Rube die?

10. How does William describe the Vigilante in terms of his “humanity”?

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