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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 Harry plan to buy Sara?
(a) A new wardrobe.
(b) A used car.
(c) A television.
(d) A new apartment.

2. Why does Sara return to Ada's after eating breakfast?
(a) For drugs.
(b) For another dye treatment.
(c) For lunch.
(d) For a peptalk.

3. How does Harry and Tyrone's drug business first go?
(a) They only have a few customers.
(b) They never begin the business.
(c) Their drugs are in high demand.
(d) Their regulars keep them going.

4. What do Tyrone and Harry buy their coworkers?
(a) A round of beers.
(b) Safety belts.
(c) Cab fare home.
(d) Drugs.

5. What takes Sara's mind off food?
(a) Television.
(b) Her papers.
(c) Harry.
(d) Ada.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sara do at the end of her first day on a diet?

2. How does Harry react to Marion's dinner date with Arnold?

3. How does Marion treat Arnold when he tries to behave as her psychiatrist?

4. How does Harry get himself to sleep after work?

5. How does Marion feel after Harry and Tyrone go to work?

Short Essay Questions

1. How are Sara and Harry's drug problems similar?

2. Why is Harry's daydream at Tyrone's apartment important to the theme of the novel?

3. How does Sara juggle her two addictions?

4. How are Harry and Sara's sleeping patterns similar?

5. Why does Harry want to buy Sara a television?

6. What does Marion not realize about her parents?

7. Why would Marion ask Arnold about his wife?

8. Looking at the kind of food Marion buys, how does this relate to her life?

9. What enabled Marion to have the past life she fondly remembers?

10. Why is it symbolic that Sara answers whatever intrusive question the television company asks her?

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