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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 physical problem has Marion created for herself from overusing?

2. How does Big Tim try to help Marion relax?

3. How do Marion, Harry, and Tyrone behave while traveling to meet Big Tim?

4. In Harry's first daydream about television shopping, how does he pay for the television?

5. Why can Tyrone and Harry not get service and assistance as they travel south?

Short Essay Questions

1. How has Sara finally realized her reality in the hospital?

2. What is the conflict at Marion's apartment when Harry and Tyrone return with drugs after scrounging on the street?

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

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

5. What do Marion and Harry hide from each other about their drug connections?

6. How does Harry feel about his mom after their visit in Chapter 3, Part 32?

7. What does the reader learn about Tyrone and his past that indirectly characterizes him?

8. What happens at the McDick Corporation concerning Sara?

9. What is Harry's internal conflict concerning Marion when they cannot find a drug connection?

10. How does Harry prepare to go to his mother's house after buying Sara a television?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This novel's characters do not have the standard qualities of a protagonist. Who is the novel's protagonist? Why?

Essay Topic 2

What is the literary effect of the story zigzagging between Harry and Sara's drug dependencies and downfalls?

Essay Topic 3

Debate the realness of the novel. Are drug addiction and its consequences adequately and fairly portrayed?

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