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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. How does Sara's diet change when she begins her pill regimen?
(a) Sara drinks coffee and eats less.
(b) Sara begins eating healthy foods.
(c) Sara only eats cabbage.
(d) Sara returns to eating whatever she wants.

2. What does Sara do at the end of her first day on a diet?
(a) Sara orders a large pizza.
(b) Sara takes pills to go to sleep.
(c) Sara fills up on water and talks to the refrigerator.
(d) Sara forces herself to vomit.

3. How does Harry get himself to sleep after work?
(a) Marion reads to Harry.
(b) Harry drinks alcohol.
(c) Marion gives Harry warm milk.
(d) Harry takes sleeping pills.

4. At the start, what comprises Sara's diet for all three meals?
(a) Water, oatmeal, and tomatoes.
(b) A hard boiled egg, grapefruit, and coffee.
(c) Tea, lettuce, and toast.
(d) Rice, apples, and coffee.

5. As Marion sits alone on her couch during Harry's first night at work, what time does she try to recapture?
(a) When she was a college student.
(b) When she loved her parents.
(c) When she was married.
(d) When she created art and painted endlessly.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sara check a few times in hopes of information?

2. What do Tyrone and Harry buy their coworkers?

3. Why does Sara panic when she sees the clock after eating breakfast?

4. What does Marion specifically remember from Europe?

5. What does Sara begin over-consuming as she begins taking her diet pills?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do people around Harry and Tyrone try to escape?

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

3. What is ironic about Harry's remark that "juice heads are too much, aren't they? They really have no class, no class at all"?

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

5. What does Sara's reaction to the phone call from Lyle Russel say about her life?

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

7. What are the repercussions of Sara's addictions?

8. What drugs is Sara abusing and how does her abuse affect her?

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

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

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