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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Bill not argue with the police?
(a) He wants to go home.
(b) He is too junk sick.
(c) He sees no point.
(d) He is too tired.

2. What does Burrough present in Appendix 3?
(a) How to cook up
(b) How to make a drug wrap
(c) Photographs
(d) A letter

3. What does Bill say life compresses into while using morphine?
(a) Heavenly light
(b) Cupboard space
(c) Bare need
(d) Hyperspace

4. What does Bill say he has visions of in this chapter?
(a) Doom
(b) Blood
(c) Death
(d) Jesus

5. What does Burroughs present in Appendix 1?
(a) A glossary
(b) Character biographies
(c) His own biography
(d) Part of the original manuscript

6. What does Bill Smuggle into Old Ike?
(a) Women
(b) Drugs
(c) Cigarettes
(d) Money

7. For what does Burroughs criticize the original publisher?
(a) Textual changes
(b) The book's front cover
(c) The book's price
(d) The book's marketing

8. Where will Bill's case be tried?
(a) The District courts
(b) The Crown courts
(c) The Magistrate courts
(d) The State courts

9. What does Bill attempt to kill in this segment?
(a) His cat
(b) His wife
(c) His car
(d) His son

10. Why does Bill hire a lawyer?
(a) To sue a drug dealer
(b) To get him off his charge back in the states
(c) To secure resident papers
(d) To keep the police away

11. What does Bill go home to fetch in this section?
(a) A knife
(b) A revolver
(c) A photograph
(d) A pen

12. Who does Bill meet at the beginning of this segment?
(a) Horace
(b) Frederick Fancy
(c) Norris
(d) Old Ike

13. What does Bill do against medical advice?
(a) Takes heroin
(b) Leaves the medical facility
(c) Drinks alcohol
(d) Eats ice cream

14. Why do Bill and Pat decide to stop selling?
(a) The police are beginning to target addicts.
(b) Their friend has an overdose.
(c) They find God.
(d) Bill has an overdose.

15. With whom does Bill partner at the beginning of this segment?
(a) Jack
(b) Jamie
(c) Harry
(d) Pat

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the second doctor Ike fetches?

2. What does Bill begin searching for the moment he arrives in Mexico City?

3. Bill's wife has moved to ________________.

4. What kind of bars does Bill visit in this chapter?

5. What does Burroughs present in Appendix 2?

(see the answer keys)

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