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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Bill hire in this segment?
(a) A driver
(b) A pimp
(c) A lawyer
(d) A prostitute

3. What do the police find in Bill's car?
(a) Marijuana cigarettes
(b) Needles
(c) A kilo of heroin
(d) A gun

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

5. Which two characters help Bill to quit drugs?
(a) Ray and Nick
(b) Mary and Jack
(c) Bill's wife and Old Ike
(d) Gains and Pat

6. What do the police think Bill is involved in selling?
(a) Slaves
(b) Stolen radios
(c) Stolen cars
(d) Stolen furniture

7. What is the name of the second doctor Ike fetches?
(a) Goddly
(b) Rollins
(c) Johnson
(d) Jopler

8. Rollins diagnose Bill with ______________.
(a) Flu
(b) Uremia
(c) Measles
(d) Consumption

9. What kind of glossary does Bill present at the end of the book?
(a) Characters in the novel
(b) Location used in the novel
(c) Slang
(d) Medical terms for drugs

10. For what kind of drug do Bill and Old Ike ask the doctors to write prescriptions?
(a) Amphetime
(b) Codeine
(c) Morphine
(d) Cocaine

11. What does Bill sign for the police in this segment?
(a) A check
(b) A prescription
(c) A letter
(d) A statement

12. What do the police do to people with injection scars?
(a) Beat them up
(b) Arrest them
(c) Shoot them
(d) Chain them to a radiator

13. To whom is Burroughs letter written?
(a) His publisher
(b) His son
(c) Allen Ginsburg
(d) His wife

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

15. Yage is from _________________.
(a) Europe
(b) Australasia
(c) South America
(d) North America

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bill go home to fetch in this section?

2. Who does Old Ike complain about in this chapter?

3. What does Burrough present in Appendix 3?

4. What is Bill free to do while he waits to go to court?

5. Where does Bill go for a shot of morphine?

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