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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. Who in Renton's family does Spud see at the pub in Na Na and Other Nazis?
(a) His parents.
(b) His uncle and aunt.
(c) His father and brother.
(d) His neice and nephew.

2. What practical joke does Begbie play on Renton in Inner Shitty?
(a) He tells the girls by them that Renton is gay.
(b) He draws on Renton's face while he's passed out.
(c) He punches Renton in the testicles as he goes to the toilet.
(d) He urinates in Renton's beer.

3. Whose point-of-view is this chapter from?
(a) Spud.
(b) Begbie.
(c) Renton.
(d) It is in the third-person.

4. When is the only time that Spud drinks with Matty?
(a) When Sick Boy is around.
(b) When there is a Hibs game.
(c) When he is high.
(d) When they are in a group.

5. Why is Renton mortified by his mother in Courting Disaster?
(a) She insists he drink only soda.
(b) She gets incredibly drunk.
(c) She tells stories of his babyhood.
(d) She keeps crying.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is different about the narrative voice in Growing Up in Public from previous chapters?

2. Describe Renton's relationship with Hazel.

3. Who in the group decides he wants to harass Begbie in this Chapter?

4. To what does Dr. Forbes connect Renton's heroin use in Searching for the Inner Man?

5. What happened the last time Begbie started a fight?

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