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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Home: Easy Money for the Professionals, A Present, Memories of Matty, Straight Dilemmas No. 1, Eating Out.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is getting a cab to Swannie's a difficulty in The Skag Boys?
(a) The cabbie does not want to pick up junkies.
(b) It is raining and all the cabs are taken.
(c) Some yuppies want the cab.
(d) Neither Renton or Sick Boy have any money.

2. With whom does Renton crash when he comes to Scotland for Matty's funeral in A Present?
(a) Kelly.
(b) Sick Boy.
(c) Gav.
(d) Davie.

3. Who goes along with Begbie in this chapter?
(a) Renton.
(b) Spud.
(c) Matty.
(d) Sick Boy.

4. In this chapter, Renton says nights like this make him want what?
(a) To commit suicide.
(b) To sleep with his ex.
(c) To leave Leith forever.
(d) A hit of smack.

5. What is different about the narrative voice in Growing Up in Public from previous chapters?
(a) It is in present tense.
(b) It is in Spanish.
(c) It is in the third person.
(d) It is Sick Boy's point-of-view.

Short Answer Questions

1. Speaking to Dianne's parent in this chapter, Renton says he works for what?

2. Why are Temps and Tommy surprised during the row in Her Man?

3. What game is being played at the pub that Renton and his parents attend near the end of this chapter?

4. Describe Renton's relationship with Hazel.

5. What bad decision does Tommy make at the end of Cock Problems?

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