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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 kind of drug dealer do Harry and Tyrone learn about as their normal drug connections fail?
(a) One giving up drugs.
(b) One that will exchange sex for drugs.
(c) One going to jail.
(d) One that only sells to black men.

2. In Harry's second daydream about television shopping, how does he behave at Macy's?
(a) Carelessly.
(b) Mean.
(c) Nervously.
(d) Confidently.

3. What is the reaction of Sara and her friends when Harry brings her the television?
(a) They are indifferent.
(b) They are happy to see him cleaned up.
(c) They are repulsed.
(d) They don't recognize him at all.

4. What do the phone operators do the first time Sara calls?
(a) Schedule her an appointment.
(b) Transfer her around.
(c) Transfer her to the manager.
(d) Hang up on her.

5. As Sara's depression worsens, what happens as Sara watches television?
(a) The actors tell her to hurt herself.
(b) She cannot stay awake.
(c) People come out of the television to judge her.
(d) She decides she does not like television.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does not feel the weight of the act that Marion will do with Big Tim?

2. Why does Sara fear the food cart in the hospital?

3. What does Harry wear when he visits his mother to give her the television?

4. What does Sara's doctor say about her physical complaints?

5. Why does Marion vomit uncontrollably after visiting Arnold the second time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Harry and Tyrone's relationship like as they work the streets?

2. What does Sara's life consist of as the year comes to a close?

3. How has Marion and Harry's relationship forever changed after Marion meets with Arnold a second time?

4. When Marion meets with Arnold a second time, what do Marion's interactions with Arnold foreshadow?

5. What does Brody's death foreshadow?

6. How are Harry and Tyrone quickly deteriorating as they head south?

7. What feeling comprises Sara's life in the hospital?

8. What does the reader find out about Lyle Russel during Sara's first phone call to the McDick Corporation?

9. What characterizes Marion and Harry's relationship as their drug addictions continually worsen?

10. What will Sara's life be like now that she is in a state mental hospital?

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