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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 the narrator compare his needle scars to?

2. Where is Candy heading when she picks up a hitchhiker?

3. What does the narrator do when he gets home after getting stitches?

4. What drug does Paul Hillman sell?

5. Why is the narrator so happy for Casper to move in with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Casper living with the narrator drastically change his life?

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

3. Why do Carl and the narrator bond?

4. What do Candy and the narrator do to try and get through detoxing?

5. What does the narrator use his Femoral vein for, and what does this indicate?

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

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

8. What happens when Candy adopts Sam?

9. What does the boat dream symbolize?

10. What happens when Candy adopts Willy?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

This book takes place in a few different settings. Describe some of these settings and how they affected the course of the plot. Why might the author have chosen these particular places for this plot to take place?

Essay Topic 2

What does the narrator see as the major turning point in his drug addiction, and what brought him to this point?

Essay Topic 3

Dishonesty was a vice that a number of characters were burdened with. Which characters were most affected by this, and why?

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