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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. Thompson wrote that Leach was a junkie for _____________.

2. What did Thompson go to the kitchen to get in "Death of a Poet"?

3. What had Leach been drinking when he changed his bet?

4. Where did Mr. Screwjack bite the second narrator as he was petting him?

5. Where did the car rental employee say she was moving to in "Death of a Poet"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Screwjack do to the second narrator?

2. How did Duke's pleas to God change in "Screwjack"?

3. What image did the narrator imagine of Leach's neighbors in "Death of a Poet"?

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

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

6. Who "wrote" the opening chapter of "Screwjack"? What exposition is revealed here?

7. What did Leach do at the end of "Death of a Poet"?

8. Describe the individual, F.X. Leach. What was his occupation? How did the narrator of "Death of a Poet" know him?

9. Who was the narrator going to see in "Death of a Poet"? What mood was he in?

10. What had the narrator just done with Screwjack in the beginning of the story?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe the narrative structure of "Death of a Poet." How does the narrative point of view in this story differ from the other selections in Screw-jack?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the character of F. X. Leach in "Death of a Poet." In what other works had Thompson used Leach? What plot similarities were there?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the title character in "Screwjack." What kind of animal is Screwjack? What is he symbolic of in the narrative?

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