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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 term refers to a rhetorical device, literary technique, or situation in which there is a sharp incongruity or discordance that goes beyond the simple and evident intention of words or actions?
(a) Incongruence
(b) Metaphors
(c) Symbolism
(d) Irony

2. What does the man in the market claim makes miracles possible?
(a) Satan
(b) Drugs
(c) Science
(d) God

3. Which of the following groups opposes everyone and calls everyone "The Human Virus”?
(a) The Senders
(b) The Factualists
(c) The Liquefactionists
(d) The Divisionists

4. Who does A.J. fund a school for?
(a) Priests
(b) Reptiles
(c) Delinquent boys
(d) Orphaned girls

5. Who is described as a tough guy?
(a) Williams
(b) Whitman
(c) O'Brien
(d) Hauser

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the Sailor keep a package of drug paraphernalia at his house?

2. When the boy asks the Sailor if he’s an agent, the Sailor responds that he prefers what word?

3. Who does the southern doctor at the conference want to kill?

4. A junky, even at the Sailor’s level, runs on what?

5. In the photographs that Carl examines, some of the models are actually what?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Carl Peterson called for a doctor’s appointment in “The Examination”? Who sees him?

2. Where does William Lee go after shooting Hauser and O’Brien? Why?

3. How is “Fats” Terminal described in “The Algebra of Need”?

4. How does the author broach the theme of reality versus hallucination in “The Examination”?

5. Where is Queens Plaza located? How does this setting relate to the other settings in the novel?

6. How does the narrative style and plot evolve in “The Algebra of Need”?

7. What does the boy ask the Sailor for in “Coke Bugs”? What is the response?

8. What is the point of the absurdity in “Islam Incorporated and the Parties of Interzone”?

9. How is the Exterminator described in “The Exterminator Does a Good Job”?

10. How does the setting of “A.J.’s Annual Party” relate to “Hassan’s Rumpus Room”?

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