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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. Why can Davie not remember where he is at the beginning of Traditional English Breakfast?
(a) He has a memory disorder.
(b) He is hung over.
(c) He was drugged.
(d) He has been in a coma.

2. How does Nina respond to the commotion at the end of Growing Up in Public?
(a) She kisses her cousin Renton.
(b) She weeps bitterly.
(c) She laughs.
(d) She fals asleep.

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

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

5. 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 get Begbie to stop drinking.
(c) Trying to get away from Begbie.
(d) Trying to convince his friends that Begbie was alright.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens to Nina that she is unprepared for in Growing Up in Public?

2. Where does Fiona go at the end of Grieving and Mourning in Port Sunshine?

3. Why is Sick Boy annoyed by Renton in In Overdrive?

4. Who appears to absconded with the pot in Grieving and Mourning in Port Sunshine?

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

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