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

2. Where is the group in Grieving and Mourning in Port Sunshine when they learn that Granty is dead?
(a) A gambling club.
(b) A park.
(c) A pub.
(d) Billy's flat.

3. 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.

4. What substance are Mike Forester and his mates sharing in The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival?
(a) Heroin.
(b) Speed.
(c) Marijuana.
(d) Oxycontin.

5. Who throws the glass in The Glass?
(a) Begbie.
(b) June.
(c) Renton.
(d) Hazel.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why is Tommy's concert purchase a poor decision in Scotland Takes Drugs in Psychic Defense?

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

4. What does Begbie do in this chapter when his mates don't want to go along with his plan?

5. What sadistic thing does Swan do in The Skag Boys?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Renton meet Dianne?

2. What does Renton discover the morning after having sex with Dianne?

3. How does Spud get in a brawl in Na Na and Other Nazis?

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

5. How does Renton play his interviewer in Speedy Recruitment?

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

7. How does Davie ruin breakfast in Traditional English Breakfast?

8. How does Renton almost lose his opium suppositories in The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival?

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

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

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