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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 is the name of the locksmith who arrives to change the locks at the Nicotine house?

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

3. What word from the novel refers to speaking or acting in an evasive way?

4. Where is the luxury hotel that Matt invites Jazz to meet him at after receiving her email?

5. Whose memoirs is Jazz reading when Rob goes to check in with her the morning after Sorry and Penny are released?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What does Amalia discover when she first goes to Nicotine?

3. What happens when the locksmith arrives at Nicotine?

4. In what squatter house does Penny end up living? Why?

5. What do Jazz, Rob, and Sorry decide to do after the encounter with Matt at Nicotine?

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

7. How does Penny learn about the conflict with Matt at Nicotine?

8. What happens when Matt kicks in the door of Nicotine?

9. What is the significance of puppets in the novel?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

Discuss and analyze the characters of Matt and Patrick in the novel. How old are these characters? What were their relationships like with their father? Who was their mother and what became of her?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the journey made by Rob, Jazz, and Sorry in the novel. Where do they go? Why are they fleeing Jersey City? What destination do they finally arrive at? Where do they go in the ending of the novel?

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