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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) Cabbage.
(b) Sleeping pills.
(c) Harry's cocaine.
(d) Coffee.

2. What hope does Marion have every night?
(a) That she could sketch.
(b) That Harry would return to her.
(c) That she would call her parents.
(d) That Tyrone would fall in love with her.

3. What news does Lyle Russel give Sara?
(a) Sara is going on a cruise.
(b) Sara has won a television.
(c) Russel enters her in a drawing for money.
(d) Russel invites her to be featured on a television program.

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

5. How do Tyrone and Harry get motivated to work every night?
(a) They watch television.
(b) They take uppers.
(c) They spend their paychecks.
(d) They count their money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Tyrone and Harry consider finding work, as in a real job?

2. What phone do Harry and Tyrone first use when they start selling drugs?

3. Where do Harry and Tyrone cut their drugs?

4. What does Harry do while he waits for Tyrone to buy drugs?

5. What does Marion specifically remember from Europe?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Sara treat her friends?

2. After Sara slides the key under the closet door, why does she refuse to emerge even as Harry rolls the television out of the door?

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

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

5. Why can Marion not sketch?

6. 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"?

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. How hard does Sara try to diet? Why?

10. What does Marion's increased involvement with Harry and Tyrone as their drug business begins foreshadow?

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