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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Harry and Tyrone's drug business first go?

2. What does Harry daydream about at Tyrone's apartment?

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

4. How does the librarian react to Sara?

5. Why do Tyrone and Harry decide to sell the drugs they get from Brody?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

7. 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"?

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

9. Why would Marion ask Arnold about his wife?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Tyrone change throughout the novel?

Essay Topic 2

How does this novel deal with an important issue in society? What is its greatest comment on the society in which it is based?

Essay Topic 3

How does the motif of damaged mother and son relationships grow throughout the novel?

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