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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What source of income are Spud and Renton trying to protect in Speedy Recruitment?
(a) Drug mule fees.
(b) Food stamps.
(c) Unemployment.
(d) Free health care.

2. Why does Begbie punch June in Inner Shitty?
(a) She threatens to phone the police.
(b) She insults his mother.
(c) She is asking him too many questions.
(d) She is drunk.

3. What information does Billy reveal about Jackie at the end of Grieving and Mourning in Port Sunshine?
(a) He is the executor of Granty's estate.
(b) He is not from Leith.
(c) He has cleared his bank account.
(d) He is sleeping with Fiona.

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

5. From where are the female tourists who sit with Begbie and Renton on the train in Inner Shitty?
(a) Spain.
(b) France.
(c) Germany.
(d) Canada.

6. Which two characters hit on the girls in this chapter?
(a) Spud and Matty.
(b) Begbie and Sick Boy.
(c) Renton and Matty.
(d) Renton and Sick Boy.

7. Who in the group decides he wants to harass Begbie in this Chapter?
(a) Sick Boy.
(b) Renton.
(c) Spud.
(d) Matty.

8. Where does Stevie currently live?
(a) New York.
(b) London.
(c) Glasgow.
(d) Amsterdam.

9. In The Glass, Renton expresses disgust at what group?
(a) The Irish.
(b) Asians.
(c) Pensioners.
(d) Skinheads.

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

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

12. Why specifically is Renton miserable in Junk Dilemma No. 65?
(a) Hazel has left him.
(b) He is drug-sick.
(c) He is cold.
(d) He has urinated on himself.

13. Describe Renton's relationship with Hazel.
(a) She is his NA sponsor.
(b) They are cousins.
(c) They occasionally have sex.
(d) They were once engaged.

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

15. Speaking to Dianne's parent in this chapter, Renton says he works for what?
(a) Barclay's.
(b) The government.
(c) A local grocer.
(d) His parents.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Renton have to convince a pub owner of to use a toilet in The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival?

2. Why does Renton inject into his penis in Cock Problems?

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

4. Whose point-of-view is this chapter from?

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

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