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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Blowing It: Courting Disaster, Junk Dilemmas No. 66, Deid Dugs, Searching for the Inner Man.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What playwright does Renton talk to the English girls in In Overdrive about?
(a) Beckett.
(b) Brecht.
(c) Shakespeare.
(d) Ibsen.

2. How does methadone affect Renton's cravings in Searching for the Inner Man?
(a) It makes them worse.
(b) It completely ends them.
(c) It relieves tham for a while.
(d) It does not affect them.

3. At the end of The Glass, Renton reflects that he spent much of his childhood doing what?
(a) Repaying Begbie for an unknown favor.
(b) Trying to convince his friends that Begbie was alright.
(c) Trying to get Begbie to stop drinking.
(d) Trying to get away from Begbie.

4. Why is Begbie disappointed in A Disappointed?
(a) He leaves a pub as a brawl begins.
(b) He cannot start a fight.
(c) He misses a pub brawl.
(d) He loses a fight.

5. How does Begbie want to do at the beginning of the chapter?
(a) Rob tourists.
(b) Sneak into a football match.
(c) Pick up a prostitute.
(d) Have a quiet drink.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Courting Disaster, Renton and Spud have been arrested stealing what?

2. Who strikes the first blow in the brawl in Na Na and Other Nazis?

3. What is not among the alcoholic supplies that Begbie and Renton pick up for their trip?

4. Describe Renton's relationship with Hazel.

5. Why does Uncle Boab's corpse sweat in Growing Up in Public?

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