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

2. How does Marion describe her parents?

3. How does Sara behave once she starts her new pill and diet regimen?

4. Where does Angel work?

5. How does Harry get himself to sleep after work?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What is the progress of Sara's diet as she tries to diet alone?

3. Why is Marion able to sketch again?

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

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

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

7. 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?

8. How are Harry and Sara's sleeping patterns similar?

9. Why would Marion ask Arnold about his wife?

10. How has Sara's refrigerator changed roles from its introduction to Sara's interactions with it now that she is confident from her pills?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Consider the novel's title. Why would two words ("requiem" and "dream") with such seemingly opposite meanings be in the title together?

Essay Topic 2

Are Sara's friends loyal friends, or are they friends when it suits them? Consider what is said as they visit Sara in the hospital: "They look at their friend of so many years, trying hard to understand. They stayed for an endless hour then reluctantly, but with a sigh of relief, left . . . They sat waiting for a bus, tears flowing from their eyes. They hugged each other."

Essay Topic 3

What is the most violent scene from the novel? How does this scene add to the overall meaning?

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