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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 Sara begin over-consuming as she begins taking her diet pills?
(a) Sleeping pills.
(b) Coffee.
(c) Harry's cocaine.
(d) Cabbage.

2. What does Tony do as he becomes irate with the television?
(a) Throws the television out the window.
(b) Shoots the television.
(c) Hits the television with the remote.
(d) Kicks at the television.

3. What does Sara receive in the mail?
(a) An envelope from the television company.
(b) A paycheck from her boss.
(c) A diet guide.
(d) A new television.

4. How much more money do Harry and Tyrone need to purchase the amount of heroin they want?
(a) Fifteenhundred dollars.
(b) Five hundred dollars.
(c) Another hundred dollars.
(d) They don't need any more money.

5. What do Harry and Tyrone do to free up their time as their drug business starts to succeed?
(a) Give Marion more work.
(b) Stop working other jobs.
(c) Allow some of their friends to sell drugs.
(d) Decrease the amount they buy from Brody.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do Tyrone and Harry get motivated to work every night?

2. Why does Sara return to Ada's after eating breakfast?

3. After lunch on Sara's first day of dieting, what does Sara debate?

4. Why does Sara feel important as her first day of dieting continues?

5. What helps Sara's optimism with her diet?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Tyrone and Harry fall short of the money they need, what does this symbolize?

2. Why would Marion ask Arnold about his wife?

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

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

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

6. What does Sara not realize about her conversations with the refrigerator?

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

8. In Part 3, how is reality infringing on Harry and Marion as they first struggle in their relationship?

9. How does Sara treat her friends?

10. What feelings does Marion miss?

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