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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 artist recorded the song "In Your Eyes"?

2. Where did Sunshine attend college?

3. Sorry laments the cost of cigarettes at the TTIP protest, saying they cost how much per pack?

4. What does Matt intend to transform the Nicotine house into after the demolition?

5. Where does Rob park his minivan for the TTIP protest?

Short Essay Questions

1. To what issue does Sorry attribute her smoking?

2. What types of foods do the inhabitants of Nicotine eat? Where do they procure their food?

3. What does the Norman Baker Center refer to?

4. What does Penny learn about her parents' marriage from Amalia?

5. What is revealed about Matt's relationship with Amalia in the course of the narrative?

6. How does Jazz justify her relationship with Matt when she first tells Penny about it?

7. What are "the Tombs" and how does Penny end up there?

8. Why do Rob and Jazz (along with Penny) go to the DJD for a week?

9. Where are Jazz's housemates when Matt first comes to see her? What do they do?

10. What is the political atmosphere like in the main (contemporary) timeline of the novel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss some of the topics for advocacy among the inhabitants of the CHA squatter houses. What important (and less important) issues do they take to task? How do they go about making their voices heard? Do you empathize with them? Why or why not?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the themes/motifs of cults, anarchy, and activism in Nicotine. How do these themes connect to one another? How are they illustrated through characters in the novel? How are they evoked through setting? What statement(s) do you think the author is making regarding these topics?

Essay Topic 3

Analyze and discuss the characters of Norm and Amalia in Nicotine. With which parent was Penny closer growing up? Why? How have Penny's relationships with her parents changed over time?

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