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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. Whose apartment does Paul move into in this chapter?

2. What does Paul say he is jealous of when he sees Yeamon and Chenault?

3. Whose poem begins the book?

4. What was Al's job before he became a bar owner?

5. What are Yeamon and Chenault doing when Paul returns?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the internal problems at the newspaper.

2. How does Paul try to get revenge on Segarra?

3. What does Sala tell Paul at Al's?

4. What problems do Paul, Sala and Yeaman run into at the bar?

5. Why does Paul give Yeaman and Sala a bad impression?

6. What do Paul, Sala and the girls do on the beach?

7. Why has Paul Kemp come to San Juan?

8. Why do neither Paul nor Sala like to stay in Sala's apartment?

9. In what way do all the characters working on the newspaper give Paul a bad first impression of his new job and life in San Juan ?

10. What does Paul do when he finds out he cannot work?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare life in 1960s Puerto Rico to life in Puerto Rico today. How has it changed? What caused these changes to take place? What would Paul's life be like in Puerto Rico if he went there today?

Essay Topic 2

What similarities does the Rum Diary share with Hunter S. Thompson's later work in terms of the following:

1) Style

2) Themes

3) Politics

Essay Topic 3

Choose a character from the novel and discuss how the novel's meaning would change if it were written from his/her point of view.

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