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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 does Naylor return to Washington D.C. at the end of Chapter 6?

2. What drink does the Captain insist Nick Naylor join him in?

3. Which John Wayne film does Naylor and his son watch at the end of Chapter 3?

4. What does Bliss remember most clearly about Heather Holloway in Chapter 7?

5. What two talking points does Naylor cite in Chapter 1's call to a dubious periodical?

Short Essay Questions

1. What types of messages does Nick have waiting for him at the Academy in Chapter 7?

2. Describe the transfixed moment Naylor experiences at the end of Chapter 3.

3. How does Nick Naylor defend his position at Clean Lungs 2000?

4. In Chapter 3, how does BR try to undermine Naylor?

5. What is the Academy of Tobacco Studies?

6. What does the reader learn about Gazelle in Chapter 7?

7. Why is Nick's Today Show interview in Chapter 12 such a hit?

8. Describe Budd Rohrabacher.

9. What is the purpose of Nick Naylor's meeting with Reverend Griggs in Chapter 10?

10. What is the MOD Squad?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Write an essay about Nick Naylor's relationships with women over the course of the novel. Write a paragraph on one of his major relationships with Heather Holloway, Jeannette Dantine, or Polly Bailey. How does each of the first two relationships reflect the truly unwise mating habits of Nick? What does he risk and lose in both of these couplings? What does he learn? Sum up the essay by discussing how Polly is a reflection of what Nick has learned in the novel.

Essay Topic 2

Christopher Buckley uses a convention in the novel that was popular both with Shakespeare and Dickens where he pointedly gives his character's names that obviously reflect their nature. Write an essay in which you choose three characters for whom this is the case. What essential part of each character does his or her name reflect? Does the name act as a forewarning about the character to the reader or does the name's meaning only become clear after the fact?

Essay Topic 3

Buckley uses setting in Thank You for Smoking to show the different fiefdoms created by powerful industries in America. Write an essay about the three most prevalent locations in the novel. What industry does the reader associate with each setting? How does this industry permeate every aspect of this setting? What characters are most dominant in each city, and how do they affect their surroundings in a palpable way?

Part 1) Washington, DC

Part 2) Los Angeles

Part 3) Winston-Salem

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