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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 was the magnification of the second narrator's spectacles in "Screwjack"?
(a) 1.5.
(b) 1.
(c) 1.75.
(d) 1.25.

2. Upon what had the narrator drooled, according to his prayer in "Screwjack"?
(a) Prison walls.
(b) Altars.
(c) High Priests.
(d) Screwjack.

3. When Mr. Screwjack left, the narrator wrote "And then he was gone, with no noise, like some ____ from my other world."
(a) Alien.
(b) Memory.
(c) Monster.
(d) Ghost.

4. In "Screwjack," the narrator pleaded to God, saying, "I am guilty, Lord, but I am also a __________."
(a) Lover.
(b) Heathen.
(c) Martyr.
(d) Worshiper.

5. The address given to Thompson by the poet was located behind ______________.
(a) Pier.
(b) Stockyards.
(c) Railroads.
(d) Church.

Short Answer Questions

1. The woman in the kitchen in "Death of a Poet" was ___________.

2. How many years after Mr. Screwjack's disappearance did the narrator encounter him again?

3. Who had given Thompson the numbers he'd used to place his bets?

4. The second narrator in "Screwjack" writes that after having been bitten, he "stared down at him very intently from a distance of" how many inches?

5. Leach told Thompson in "Death of a Poet" that he had changed his bet, gotten drunk, and ________________.

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the critical and public reaction to the collection of stories in Screw-jack?

2. What interaction did the narrator have with the car rental employee in "Death of a Poet"?

3. What did Duke write to the Lord in "Screwjack"?

4. Describe briefly the career of Hunter S. Thompson. For what genre of journalism was he known?

5. What other work had Thompson written centering on the character F.X. Leach?

6. What did the second narrator do to Screwjack?

7. What happened when Duke threw Screwjack out?

8. What was the significance of the bet in "Death of a Poet"?

9. How is the narrative style of "Screwjack" similar to the other stories in the collection? How does it differ?

10. What did Screwjack do in the ending of the narrative?

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