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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Relapsing: Scotland Takes Drugs in Psychic Defense, The Glass, A Disappointment, Cock Problems.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Renton get a rented room in The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival?
(a) The rent is going up at his other room.
(b) Other junkies cannot find him.
(c) He wants to try out a new neighborhood.
(d) He is having an affair with a man.

2. Why does Uncle Boab's corpse sweat in Growing Up in Public?
(a) He is in the same room with a naked woman.
(b) He has been on steroids for months.
(c) His fever is breaking after death.
(d) His electric blanket is still on.

3. What substance do Renton and Spud do to prepare for their interviews?
(a) Speed.
(b) Heroin.
(c) LSD.
(d) Quaaludes

4. Why is Tommy's concert purchase a poor decision in Scotland Takes Drugs in Psychic Defense?
(a) Tommy has to skip work to go to the concert.
(b) Tommy is in debt.
(c) The concert promoter has a grudge against him.
(d) The concert is on his girlfriend's birthday.

5. What bad news does Tommy bring in Cock Problems?
(a) The Hibs have lost again.
(b) His brother has died.
(c) Lizzy broke up with him.
(d) He has chlamydia.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What substance does Mike Forrester give Renton instead of smack in The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival?

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

5. What does Renton hear as he wakes up in It Goes Without Saying?

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