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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 The Sailor receives what from a passing messenger after his meeting?
(a) A potato
(b) A book
(c) A newspaper
(d) A tube

2. What leads the patients at Dr. Benway’s psychiatric hospital being freed?
(a) A computer malfunction
(b) Mrs. Molly's cats
(c) The Vigilante's diatribes
(d) The Sailor's Entourage

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

4. What piece of music does William hear in Chapter 7?
(a) The Star Spangled Banner
(b) Sweet Sixteen
(c) I Wanna Hold Your Hand
(d) God Bless America

5. Who does The Sailor meet with to arrange the sale of a drug in tubes and eggs?
(a) Dr. Schafer
(b) AJ
(c) Dr. Benway
(d) Fats Terminal

Short Answer Questions

1. Which of the following refers to an institution for the preservation or recovery of health, especially for convalescence?

2. Which of the following characters deals drugs but does not use them?

3. What creatures feed off the Mugwumps?

4. William imagines a conversation between an Inspector and whom in Chapter 8?

5. Where does William go to meet with Dr. Benway in Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. How is Joselito described? Where is he in the beginning of the chapter named for him?

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

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

5. William looks down on the other passengers of the bus because they do not know anything about the drug subculture but pretend to in “And Start West.” Why is this significant to the novel’s themes?

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

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

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

9. Why is Willy at Hassan’s Hospital in “Hospital”? How is his situation described?

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

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