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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 is Angelo's occupation?

2. Why does Candy get into a fight with the narrator after he meets with Angelo?

3. Where does Candy move to after leaving the warehouse?

4. What does the narrator consider his job?

5. Where is the narrator in his important dream?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of things did Candy do after the narrator went to Sydney?

2. What happens when Candy adopts Sam?

3. What does the narrator ask for at the hospital while getting stitches, and how does the doctor reply?

4. What does Candy say when the narrator calls her from Sally's house, and what does the narrator think of this?

5. What job does Candy think the narrator should take in Chapter 13, and why?

6. What does the narrator do in the postal office that gets him arrested?

7. How does the narrator scam David?

8. What happens when the narrator meets the man in the BMW?

9. What does the narrator feel swallowed up by in Chapter 14?

10. What does the narrator say detox is like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Power and Greed were two common themes in this book. Where did they appear, and how do they differ in their manifestations?

Essay Topic 2

What role does symbolism play in the story and where does it appear? How is the plot altered by the presence of these symbols?

Essay Topic 3

What changed for the narrator when he began cooking, and why?

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