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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does J.P. carry to work in a thermos?

2. What is Tiny hoping to drink on New Year's Eve?

3. Where do the narrator and his girlfriend decide to have Christmas dinner?

4. Why does J.P. say he switched drinks?

5. Whose car do the narrator and his girlfriend take to the facility?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is J.P.'s wife a symbol of?

2. What does Roxy's name suggest?

3. Is the story sympathetic or not sympathetic to alcoholics, and why?

4. Why does the narrator want to ask Tiny more about his seizure?

5. Why don't we learn what the narrator does for a living?

6. Is the narrator's girlfriend also an alcoholic?

7. What economic class do you think the narrator is from and why?

8. Give one example of a character in the story being self-deprecating.

9. Why does the narrator use the term "drunk" instead of "alcoholic"?

10. Why does Tiny stay at the facility?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Who is the more reliable storyteller, J.P. or the narrator? Give examples to back up your opinion.

Essay Topic 2

Why is the character Frank Martin included in the story? Could the story have been told without him, or is he central to the themes?

Essay Topic 3

Compare how humility and arrogance are used in the story.

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