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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Bill's wife?
(a) Georgina
(b) Nina
(c) She is unnamed
(d) Helena

2. How does Bill describe his academic performance at school?
(a) Pathetic
(b) Close to genuis
(c) Average
(d) Brilliant

3. What does Bill say can sometimes improve in a marijuana user?
(a) Skin
(b) Love life
(c) The flu
(d) Health

4. What do junkies hate to do?
(a) Sleep
(b) Bathe
(c) Walk
(d) Kiss

5. What drug does Bill take in his apartment?
(a) Benzedrine
(b) Codeine
(c) Speed
(d) Morphine

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Bill find himself stranded?

2. Who does Bill start buying drugs from in this chapter?

3. What does Gains tell Bill to be?

4. What do Nick's customers accuse him of doing?

5. What kind of drug do Bill and Herman start to deal?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the story about the mark who woke up while he was being robbed.

2. How do Bill and Roy get enough money to continue their habits?

3. Who is Jack?

4. What do Bill and Mary do in the apartment?

5. What does Roy say to Lee at Lee's apartment in the opening ten pages?

6. Describe Bill's meeting with the sailor.

7. What does Bill Gains and Bill do with the junk when they purchase it?

8. What is Bill's opinion of heroin dealers?

9. What is the difference between Burroughs' use of dialogue when talking to the police and his use of dialogue when talking to friends?

10. Describe Bill's early life.

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