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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 Alice refer to Shura's bad moods?
(a) Siberian Wastelands.
(b) White Death.
(c) White Noise.
(d) Mental Fugues.

2. Shura tells Alice that who is coming to visit him in Chapter 20?
(a) Michelle.
(b) Ursula.
(c) Andrea.
(d) Helen.

3. Shura determines in his experiments with MDMA that it is not truly what?
(a) Physical.
(b) Psychedelic.
(c) Safe.
(d) Transferable.

4. Shura believes that MDMA is like what, in that it can be all things to all people?
(a) Sunflower oil.
(b) Witch's brew.
(c) Snake oil.
(d) Water.

5. Who is Christopher's stepmother?
(a) Samantha.
(b) Martha.
(c) Irene.
(d) Katherine.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many children does Alice have in Chapter 18?

2. What does Ursula write to say she has had shipped in Chapter 28?

3. What is the name of the protagonist's first wife in the novel?

4. Whose picture does Shura show Alice in Chapter 22?

5. In what year did Shura first take the drug mescaline?

Short Essay Questions

1. What drug does Shura focus on in Chapter 4? What are his observations of the drug?

2. What drug does Shura synthesize in Chapter 9? How is this substance described?

3. What drug experience does Alice share with Sam in Chapter 17?

4. What drug is Shura manufacturing in Chapter 6? How?

5. What does Alice write about in Chapter 21 of her sons?

6. With whom does Alice speak of Shura with in Chapter 23? What does she learn?

7. What is Shura's relationship to Dr. Andrew Walker Scott?

8. What leads up to Alice's near-death experience in Chapter 17?

9. What is the second occasion where Alice and Shura meet?

10. Describe Alice's actions at the Valentine's Day party in Chapter 19.

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