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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Relapsing: Traditional English Breakfast, Junk Dilemmas No. 65, Grieving and Mourning in Port Sunshine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In It Goes Without Saying, who does Renton figure out is Dawn's father?
(a) Sick Boy.
(b) Swan.
(c) Himself.
(d) Stevie.

2. What substance does Mike Forrester give Renton instead of smack in The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival?
(a) Off-brand methadone.
(b) Overly-cut blow.
(c) A can of Blackthorn.
(d) Opium suppositories.

3. What does Renton hear as he wakes up in It Goes Without Saying?
(a) Iggy Pop.
(b) Crying.
(c) Screaming.
(d) Laughing.

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

5. At the end of In Overdrive, Sick Boy has a creed against what?
(a) Modern spy thrillers.
(b) Art.
(c) Friendship.
(d) Smack.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sadistic thing does Swan do in The Skag Boys?

2. Why does Renton have to rummage through his own filth in The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival?

3. Why can Davie not remember where he is at the beginning of Traditional English Breakfast?

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

5. In Junk Dilemma No. 63, to what does Renton compare his heroin high?

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