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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. How are the police involved in the Harlan Jefferson situation?
2. Why does a nurse leave Sara alone for two days?
3. What do Harry and Tyrone do on the streets for safety after they no longer have a business?
4. Who does not feel the weight of the act that Marion will do with Big Tim?
5. What do Harry and Marion do between using heroin after Harry returns from seeing Sara?
Short Essay Questions
1. How does Harry feel about his mom after their visit in Chapter 3, Part 32?
2. How has Tyrone changed now that he dips into the stash?
3. What is ironic about Harry's new state of addiction after his drug business collapses?
4. What is Harry's internal conflict concerning Marion when they cannot find a drug connection?
5. What does the reader learn about Tyrone and his past that indirectly characterizes him?
6. How does heroin influence Harry's reality as he television shops?
7. What characterizes Marion and Harry's relationship as their drug addictions continually worsen?
8. What is the conflict at Marion's apartment when Harry and Tyrone return with drugs after scrounging on the street?
9. What is Harry and Tyrone's relationship like as they work the streets?
10. What feeling comprises Sara's life in the hospital?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How does the motif of damaged mother and son relationships grow throughout the novel?
Essay Topic 2
What is the role of doctors in the novel? Consider all characters who interact with doctors. Is the author making a criticism about the medical field?
Essay Topic 3
Sara begins taking the pills as the doctor orders: three before every meal. When Sara no longer feels the buzz that they gave her in the beginning, she starts taking them all at once to start her day. What internal struggle drives Sara to abuse her medication?
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