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

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

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

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

5. Who strikes the first blow in the brawl in Na Na and Other Nazis?
(a) Spud.
(b) The youngest skinhead.
(c) The bigest skinhead.
(d) Dode.

Short Answer Questions

1. Describe Renton's relationship with Hazel.

2. At the beginning of The Skag Boys, What does Mark Renton want to do instead of get high with Sick Boy?

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

4. What about Dianne does Renton immediately dislike?

5. What does Stevie tell Stella before leaving for Edinburgh in Victory on New Year's Day?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the cause of the brawl in Her Man?

2. How do Renton and Sick Boy pick up girls in In Overdrive?

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

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

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

6. How do the junkies react to the tragedy that occurs in It Goes Without Saying?

7. How does Sick Boy dictate activities in The Skag Boys?

8. How does Renton prepare to come off of junk 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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