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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the group in Grieving and Mourning in Port Sunshine accumulate its communal pot?
(a) They play the ponies.
(b) They do odd jobs.
(c) They wager on fights.
(d) They play casino poker.

2. What is not among the alcoholic supplies that Begbie and Renton pick up for their trip?
(a) Vodka.
(b) Beer.
(c) Whiskey.
(d) Rum.

3. Why can Gav and Tommy not enjoy their drink in Her Man?
(a) The barman is mocking Gav's haircut.
(b) Tommy keeps falling asleep.
(c) A man nearby is beating his wife.
(d) Spud is bugging them for cash.

4. What practical joke does Begbie play on Renton in Inner Shitty?
(a) He draws on Renton's face while he's passed out.
(b) He punches Renton in the testicles as he goes to the toilet.
(c) He urinates in Renton's beer.
(d) He tells the girls by them that Renton is gay.

5. What about Dianne does Renton immediately dislike?
(a) Her dress.
(b) Her music taste.
(c) Her breath.
(d) Her views on Northern Ireland.

Short Answer Questions

1. What playwright does Renton talk to the English girls in In Overdrive about?

2. What reason does Renton offer the next morning for sleeping in Dianne's flat?

3. How is Spud related to Dode?

4. In The Glass, Renton expresses disgust at what group?

5. Why specifically is Renton miserable in Junk Dilemma No. 65?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Renton prepare to come off of junk in The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival?

2. What does Renton slowly realize has happened at the beginning of It Goes Without Saying?

3. Why do the mates decide to go to the Meadows?

4. Why does Stevie have a wonderful New Years despite getting punched?

5. How is Begbie's home-life portrayed at the beginning of Inner Shitty?

6. How does Tommy fall into the heroin lifestyle in Cock Problems?

7. Describe the activities of the gang in Grieving and Mourning in Port Sunshine.

8. What do all of the Junk Dilemmas have in common?

9. Describe Renton and Spuds' tiff and reconciliation in this chapter.

10. What strange occurrence happens at the wake in Growing Up in Public?

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