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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Relapsing: Traditional English Breakfast, Junk Dilemmas No. 65, Grieving and Mourning in Port Sunshine.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the group in Grieving and Mourning in Port Sunshine accumulate its communal pot?
(a) They do odd jobs.
(b) They play casino poker.
(c) They play the ponies.
(d) They wager on fights.

2. How is Billy connected to the character's in previous chapters?
(a) He is Spud's father.
(b) He is Renton's brother.
(c) He is Tommy's cousin.
(d) He is Begbie's nephew.

3. What happens to Nina that she is unprepared for in Growing Up in Public?
(a) She has a narcoleptic fit.
(b) She needs to score smack.
(c) She is attracted to her uncle.
(d) Her period starts.

4. Why does Renton have to rummage through his own filth in The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival?
(a) He loses a contact lens.
(b) He loses his keys.
(c) He loses his suppositories.
(d) He loses his heroin stash.

5. Why does Begbie berate Stevie in Victory on New Year's Day?
(a) He left the neighborhood.
(b) He is being sullen.
(c) She is not a Hearts fan.
(d) He won't do a shot.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom does Sick Boy have sex in The Skag Boys?

2. What substance does Mike Forrester give Renton instead of smack in The First Day of the Edinburgh Festival?

3. What is different about the narrative voice in Growing Up in Public from previous chapters?

4. Why is Tommy's concert purchase a poor decision in Scotland Takes Drugs in Psychic Defense?

5. What playwright does Renton talk to the English girls in In Overdrive about?

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