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Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He offered his hand and smiled, and to Morrison the smile looked almost predatory. He ___ to feel a little tense, and that made him want a cigarette

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He told himself that all he had to do was to go to the closet door and ___ it open. But he was too afraid of what he might find. He went back to bed but didn’t sleep for a long time

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He was sitting in the outer office of Quitters, Inc. the next day ___ at three. He had spent most of the day swinging between skipping the appointment the receptionist had made for him on the way out and going in a spirit of mulish cooperation

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: How in the name of God was he ever going to be able to make another tough presentation to a wary client, without that cigarette burning ___ between his fingers as he approached the charts and layouts

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: I told you we were pragmatists here. As pragmatists, we have to start by realizing how difficult it is to cure an addiction to tobacco. The relapse rate is almost eighty-five percent. The relapse rate for heroin addicts is lower than that. It is an extraordinary ___ Extraordinary

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: If the rabbit gets a jolt often enough while he’s eating,” Donatti said, “he makes the ___ very quickly. Eating causes pain. Therefore, he won’t eat. A few more shocks, and the rabbit will starve to death in front of his food. It’s called aversion training

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: In the end, something Jimmy McCann had said ___ him to keep the appointment – ‘It changed my whole life.’ God knew his own life could do with some changing. And then there was his own curiosity.

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Momentarily. ___ over here, please.” Donatti had risen and was standing by the green curtains Morrison had noticed yesterday

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Morrison glanced into the wastebasket. One of the cigarettes, although ___, still looked smokeable. Donatti laughed goodnaturedly, reached into the wastebasket, and broke it between his fingers

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Morrison looked at him closely. Donatti wasn’t upset. In fact, he looked a little amused. The ___ of a man who has seen this reaction scores of times – maybe hundreds

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Morrison losing the physical compulsion to smoke little by little, but never losing the psychological craving, or the ___ to have something in his mouth – cough drops, Life Savers, a toothpick. Poor substitutes, all of them

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Shrugging, Morrison ___ Donatti his pack. There were only two or three left in it, anyway

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Somehow not as repulsive as before. ___ his son tightly, realizing what Donatti and his colleagues had so cynically realized before him: love is the most pernicious drug of all. Let the romantics debate its existence. Pragmatists accept it and use it

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: State legislatures sometimes hear a request that the prison systems do away with the weekly cigarette ration. Such proposals are invariably ___ In a few cases where they have passed, there have been fierce prison riots. Riots, Mr. Morrison. Imagine it

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The wait in the outer office was shorter this time. When the receptionist told him to ___ in, Donatti was waiting

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Then he went to the study door, peered out into the empty hall, and went back to look at the cigarettes some more. A horrible picture came: his life stretching before him and not a cigarette to be ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Truer words had never been spoken. He put the cigarette in his mouth and then ___, cocking his head. Had there been the slightest noise from the closet?

Choose the right preposition: A horrible picture came: his life stretching ___ him and not a cigarette to be found. How in the name of God was he ever going to be able to make another tough presentation to a wary client, without that cigarette burning nonchalantly between his fingers as he approached the charts and layouts

Choose the right preposition: After a moment’s hesitation, he followed his customary bowl of cornflakes ___ scrambled eggs

Choose the right preposition: And finally, Morrison hung up in a colossal traffic jam ___ the Midtown Tunnel. Darkness. Horns blaring. Air stinking. Traffic hopelessly snarled

Choose the right preposition: And suddenly, thumbing open the glove compartment and seeing the half-open pack of cigarettes ___ there

Choose the right preposition: And then he was gone, making his way through the crowd ___ the escalators

Choose the right preposition: Around three o’clock he woke up completely. His craving ___ a cigarette was like a low-grade fever

Choose the right preposition: At last Donatti ceased pounding. He picked up the pack, a twisted and battered ruin. “You wouldn’t believe the pleasure that gives me,” he said, and dropped the pack into the wastebasket. “Even ___ three years in the business, it still pleases me.”

Choose the right preposition: At Onde’s, where he is meeting a client. Looking ___ 45’s in Sam Goody’s, where Morrison is looking for a Sam Cooke album. Once in a foursome behind Morrison’s group ..the local golf course

Choose the right preposition: Bobby Crager dropped ___ my office one day and gave me a fatherly little pep talk. Do you remember what those are like

Choose the right preposition: But he was too afraid ___ what he might find. He went back to bed but didn’t sleep for a long time

Choose the right preposition: But they couldn’t be watching now, ___ the dead of night, in his own study

Choose the right preposition: Donatti put the pack ___ the desk. Then, smiling into Morrison’s eyes, he curled his right hand into a fist and began to hammer it down on the pack of cigarettes, which twisted and flattened. A broken cigarette end flew out.

Choose the right preposition: Donatti released the button. “Far from it. There’s a very low-yield charge in the floor. Watch the rabbit, Mr. Morrison!” The rabbit was crouched about ten feet away from the dish of pellets. His nose wriggled. All ___ once he hopped away into a corner.

Choose the right preposition: During the fourth month, the month when most clients backslid, the “service” would return ___ twenty-four hours a day

Choose the right preposition: For a moment he thought Jimmy McCann looked almost grim. “Yes. A little too much, ___ fact. But I took it off again. I’m about right now. I was skinny before.”

Choose the right preposition: For the rest ___ his life

Choose the right preposition: Had there been the slightest noise from the closet? A faint shifting? Surely not. But – Another mental image – that rabbit hopping crazily ___ the grip of electricity

Choose the right preposition: He cursed Donatti. And most ___ all, he cursed Jimmy McCann. How could he have done it? The son of a bitch had known

Choose the right preposition: He cursed himself for getting ___ this

Choose the right preposition: He gave Henry a ten to pay for his drink, then picked up the small business card and reread it – 237 East Forty-sixth Street was only two blocks over; it was a cool, sunny October day outside, and maybe, just ___ chuckles

Choose the right preposition: He had left the office early and had come here to drink the afternoon away. Things had not been going so well ___ the Morton Agency. In fact, things were bloody horrible

Choose the right preposition: He looked around and licked his lips. Constant supervision during the first month, Donatti had said. Eighteen hours a day ___ the next two–but he would never know which eighteen

Choose the right preposition: He looked at them for a moment, then snatched one and lit it ___ the dashboard lighter

Choose the right preposition: He offered his hand and smiled, and ___ Morrison the smile looked almost predatory. He began to feel a little tense, and that made him want a cigarette.

Choose the right preposition: He reached into the drawer and brought ___ a cigarette. He caressed it, fondled it. What was that old slogan? So round, so firm, so fully packed. Truer words had never been spoken. He put the cigarette in his mouth and then paused, cocking his head

Choose the right preposition: He sees the young man almost every morning now, and sometimes ___ other places

Choose the right preposition: He slept badly that night, dozing ___ and out of sleep

Choose the right preposition: He took the elevator up and stepped off ___ a lushly carpeted foyer and from there into a gracefully appointed reception room with a wide window that looked out on the scurrying bugs below

Choose the right preposition: He was sitting ___ the outer office of Quitters, Inc. the next day promptly at three. He had spent most of the day swinging between skipping the appointment the receptionist had made for him on the way out and going in a spirit of mulish cooperation – ‘Throw your best pitch at me, buster.’

Choose the right preposition: He went downstairs and ___ his study

Choose the right preposition: His hands trembled in their desire to get hold of Jimmy Judas McCann. Stealthily, he glanced ___ the study again

Choose the right preposition: Horns blasted impatiently behind him. Ahead, the traffic had begun to move again. He stubbed the cigarette ___ in the ashtray, opened both front windows, opened the vents, and then fanned the air helplessly like a kid who has just flushed this first butt down the john

Choose the right preposition: Hugging his son tightly, realizing what Donatti and his colleagues had so cynically realized before him: love is the most pernicious drug ___ all.