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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 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: 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: 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.

Choose the right preposition: I told her to get rid ___ all the damn cigarettes

Choose the right preposition: I wasn’t ___ very good shape

Choose the right preposition: In spite of how lousy he felt ___ the morning, breakfast tasted good

Choose the right preposition: In the end, something Jimmy McCann had said convinced him to keep the appointment – ‘It changed my whole life.’ God knew his own life could do ___ some changing. And then there was his own curiosity. Before going up in the elevator, he smoked a cigarette down to the filter. Too damn bad if it’s the last one, he thought. It tasted horrible.

Choose the right preposition: McCann laughed. “You know it. Well, to put the capper ___ it, the doc told me I had an incipient ulcer. He told me to quit smoking.” McCann grimaced. “Might as well tell me to quit breathing.”

Choose the right preposition: Morrison and a crony from Larkin Studios ___ Jack Dempsey’s bar. Crony offers a cigarette. Morrison grips his glass a little more tightly and says: I’m quitting. Crony laughs and says: I give you a week

Choose the right preposition: Morrison grunted. He considered ‘since Hector was a pup’ to be one ___ Cindy’s stupider sayings, on a par with ‘I should smile and kiss a pig.’

Choose the right preposition: Morrison nodded in perfect understanding. Nonsmokers could afford to be smug. He looked at his own cigarette ___ distaste and stubbed it out, knowing he would be lighting another in five minutes.

Choose the right preposition: Morrison picked up the card, looked ___ it thoughtfully, then tucked it away in his wallet and forgot it

Choose the right preposition: Morrison’s eyes widened. “What did they do? Fill you full ___ some drug?”

Choose the right preposition: No windows. He slid open the top drawer ___ his desk and looked in, fascinated by the cigarette box

Choose the right preposition: Quitters, Inc., was in a new building where the monthly rent on the office space was probably close to Morrison’s yearly salary. ___ the directory in the lobby, it looked to him like their offices took up one whole floor, and that spelled money. Lots of it

Choose the right preposition: The card fell out ___ his wallet and onto another bar a month later

Choose the right preposition: The house was grave-quiet. He looked ___ the cigarettes in the box for almost two minutes, unable to tear his gaze away. Then he went to the study door, peered out into the empty hall, and went back to look at the cigarettes some more

Choose the right preposition: The room was ___ the middle of the house

Choose the right preposition: The thought of Cindy in that room – He listened desperately and heard nothing. He told himself that all he had to do was to go ___ the closet door and yank it open

Choose the right preposition: The wait in the outer office was shorter this time. When the receptionist told him to go___, Donatti was waiting.

Choose the right preposition: Then twelve hours of broken surveillance each day ___ the rest of the year. After that? Random surveillance for the rest of the client’s life

Choose the right preposition: Three men and one woman sat ___ the chairs along the walls, reading magazines. Business types, all of them. Morrison went to the desk

Choose the right preposition: Tobacco crumbs spilled. The sound of Donatti’s fist was very loud ___ the closed room. The smile remained on his face in spite of the force of the blows, and Morrison was chilled by it. Probably just the effect they want to inspire, he thought

Choose the right preposition: Treatments by Appointment “No, it’s nothing like that. Go and see ___ yourself.” He gestured at Morrison’s cigarette. “You don’t really like that, do you?”

Choose the right preposition: We may audit you every other month,” Donatti said. “Or every other day. Or constantly for one week two years ___ now.

Choose the right preposition: When Henry brought his change, he finished his drink and then went ___ a walk

Choose the right preposition: “But consider the implications. When you put a man in prison you take away any normal sex life, you take away his liquor, his politics, his freedom of movement. No riots – or few ___ comparison to the number of prisons. But when you take away cigarettes – wham! bam!” He slammed his fist on the desk for emphasis.

Choose the right preposition: “Come ___ me,” Donatti said. “A great many prospective clients never show up again after the initial interview. They discover they don’t want to quit as badly as they thought. It’s going to be a pleasure to work with you on this.”

Choose the right preposition: “If the rabbit gets a jolt often enough while he’s eating,” Donatti said, “he makes the association very quickly. Eating causes pain. Therefore, he won’t eat. A few more shocks, and the rabbit will starve ___ death in front of his food. It’s called aversion training.”

Choose the right preposition: “Indeed. Watch him.” Donatti pressed a button by the windowsill. The rabbit stopped eating and began to hop about crazily. It seemed to leap higher each time its feet struck the floor. Its fur stood out spikily ___ all directions. Its eyes were wild.

Choose the right preposition: “Look, you’ve got my curiosity aroused. Can’t you just – ” “I’m sorry, Dick. I really can’t talk ___ it.” His voice was firm.

Choose the right preposition: “Momentarily. Step over here, please.” Donatti had risen and was standing by the green curtains Morrison had noticed yesterday. Donatti drew the curtains, discovering a rectangular window that looked ___ a bare room. No, not quite bare. There was a rabbit on the floor, eating pellets out of a dish. “Pretty bunny,” Morrison commented

Choose the right preposition: “No.” He had taken out his wallet and was rummaging through it. “Here it is. I knew I had one kicking around.” He laid a plain white business card ___ the bar between them

Choose the right preposition: “Stopping really changed things for me,” McCann said. “I don’t suppose it’s the same for everyone, but with me it was just like dominoes falling over. I felt better and my relationship ___ Sharon improved. I had more energy, and my job performance picked up.”

Choose the right preposition: “Sure,” he said, and gulped ___ his drink when it came

Choose the right preposition: “That’s me,” McCann said, getting up. He tossed a five ___ the bar. “Have another, if you like. And think about what I said, Dick. Really.”

Choose the right preposition: “Wait a second,” Morrison said. He motioned ___ another drink and lit a cigarette. “Do these guys strap you down and make you smoke until you throw up?”

Choose the right preposition: “Why the great secrecy if this outfit is so fantastic? How come I’ve never seen any spots on TV, billboards, magazine ads – ” “They get all the clients they can handle ___ word of mouth.”

Choose the right preposition: “Yeah.” He had worked at Crager and Barton for eighteen months before joining the Morton Agency. “Get your butt ___ gear or get your butt out.”

Choose the right preposition: “Yes, I did. At first I didn’t think I’d be able to – I was cheating like hell. Then I met a guy who told me about an outfit ___on Forty-sixth Street. Specialists. I said what do I have to lose and went over. I haven’t smoked since.”

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Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A little heavier than when Morrison had seen him at the Atlanta Exhibition the year before, but otherwise he looked awesomely ___ In college he had been a thin, pallid chain smoker buried behind huge horn-rimmed glasses

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: A man who had come in after him took out a cigarette ___, snapped it open, saw there were no ashtrays, and put it away – looking a little guilty, Morrison thought

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: At last the receptionist gave him a ___ smile and said, “Go right in, Mr. Morrison.”

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Beyond the door was an austere little room walled with drilled white ___ panels

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Bobby Crager dropped by my office one day and gave me a fatherly little ___ talk

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: From the directory in the lobby, it looked to him like their offices took up one whole floor, and that spelled money. ___ of it

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He ___ his feet around a bar stool and lighted a cigarette

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He extended his ___ and they shook

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: 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 ___ over; it was a cool, sunny October day outside, and maybe, just for chuckles

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He had apparently switched to ___ lenses

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He had been overworking, overeating, and smoking too ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He had left the office early and had come here to drink the ___away

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He had taken out his wallet and was rummaging through ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He had worked at Crager and Barton for eighteen months before joining the ___ Agency

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He laid a plain white business card on the bar ___ them

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He led Morrison past a number of closed, unmarked doors and then opened one of them about halfway down the hall with a ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He looked at his own cigarette with distaste and stubbed it out, knowing he would be lighting another in five ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He looked speculatively at Morrison and sipped his ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He might even tap some ashes on their maroon shag ___ if they made him wait long enough

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He picked up a copy of ‘…’ and began to leaf through it

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He pulled out a roll of antacid pills and crunched one in his ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He put the pack away again. That was all ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He sat between the woman, who was wearing a severe blue suit, and a young executive ___ wearing a herringbone jacket and modish sideburns

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He took out his ___ of cigarettes, looked around, and saw there were no ashtrays

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He took the elevator up and stepped off into a lushly carpeted foyer and from there into a gracefully appointed reception room with a wide window that looked out on the scurrying ___ below

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He tried to tell himself that the little worm of jealousy in his ___ was just acid indigestion

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He was called a quarter of an hour later, after the woman in the ___ suit

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He was holding a ___ of paper in one hand. He looked vaguely familiar

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: He would see this little game through and then light up while he was ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Here it ___ I knew I had one kicking around

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: His nicotine ___ was speaking quite loudly now

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: In fact, things were ___ horrible

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: It made him ___ better

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Morrison nodded in ___ understanding

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Morrison walked through the door beyond her desk and found himself in an indirectly lit ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Morrison was waiting for someone who was hung up in the air traffic jam over Kennedy International when he saw a familiar face at the end of the ___ and walked down

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Morrison went to the ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: My God, Morrison thought with an inner wince. Jimmy McCann’s got ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: No. Going to Miami for a conference. A heavy client. Bills six million. I’m supposed to hold his hand because we lost out on a big special next ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Nonsmokers could afford to be ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Quitters, Inc., was in a new building where the monthly rent on the office space was probably close to Morrison’s ___ salary

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The card fell out of his wallet and onto another ___a month later

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: The only furnishings were a desk with a chair on either ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There was a picture on the wall to Morrison’s left–a tall man with iron-gray ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: There was what appeared to be a small oblong window in the wall behind the desk, but it was covered with a short green ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Things had not been going ___ well at the Morton Agency

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Three men and one woman sat in the chairs along the walls, reading magazines. Business ___, all of them

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Well, to put the capper on it, the ___ told me I had an incipient ulcer. He told me to quit smoking

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: When Henry brought his change, he finished his drink and then went for a ___

Find the one answer that truly corresponds to the original version of the novel: Yes, I did. At first I didn’t think I’d be able ___ – I was cheating like hell. Then I met a guy who told me about an outfit over on Forty-sixth Street. Specialists. I said what do I have to lose and went over. I haven’t smoked since

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And finally, Morrison hung up in a colossal traffic jam in the Midtown Tunnel. Darkness. Horns blaring. Air stinking. Traffic hopelessly ___.

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: And suddenly, thumbing open the glove compartment and seeing the half-open pack of cigarettes in there. He looked at them for a moment, then ___ one and lit it with the dashboard lighter

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He pulled a small card laminated in plastic from his breast pocket. “Well, that’s not too bad. I’m going to ___ you a prescrip for some highly illegal diet pills. Use them sparingly and according to directions. And I’m going to set your maximum weight at...let’s see...” He consulted the card again

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Horns blasted impatiently behind him. Ahead, the traffic had begun to move again. He stubbed the cigarette out 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 ___

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: If anything ___, it’s Cindy’s fault, he told himself defiantly. I told her to get rid of all the damn cigarettes

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Introductions are made all around. Jimmy looks as good, if not better, than he did on that day in the airport ___ so long ago.

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Looking at 45’s in Sam Goody’s, where Morrison is looking for a Sam Cooke album. Once in a foursome behind Morrison’s ___ at the local golf course

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Morrison and a crony from Larkin Studios at Jack Dempsey’s bar. Crony offers a cigarette. Morrison ___ his glass a little more tightly and says: I’m quitting. Crony laughs and says: I give you a week

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Morrison getting drunk at a party, wanting a cigarette – but not quite drunk enough to take one. Morrison visiting his son, ___ him a large ball that squeaked when you squeezed it. His son’s slobbering, delighted kiss

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Morrison has never ___ his wife. She is pretty in the radiant way plain girls sometimes have when they are very, very happy.

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Morrison runs into the crony from the Larkin Studio at Dempsey’s bar. Morrison is down to what Cindy proudly calls his fighting weight: one-sixty-seven. He works out three times a week and looks as ___as whipcord

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Morrison waiting for the morning train, looking over the top of the ‘Times’ at a young man in a blue suit. He sees the young man almost every morning now, and ___ at other places. At Onde’s, where he is meeting a client

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Quite by ___, Morrison and his wife meet the Jimmy McCanns at the Helen Hayes Theatre.

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: She offers her hand and Morrison shakes it. There is something ___ about her grip, and halfway through the second act, he realizes what it was. The little finger on her right hand is missing.

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The crony stubs his cigarette out with real revulsion and drains his ___ Morrison looks at him speculatively and then takes a small white business card out of his wallet. He puts it on the bar between them. You know, he says, these guys changed my life

Find the three answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: The first drag made him cough smoke out furiously. The second made his eyes water. The third made him feel lightheaded and ___ It tastes awful, he thought. And on the heels of that: My God, what am I doing

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: A broken cigarette end flew out. Tobacco crumbs spilled. The sound of Donatti’s fist was very loud in the closed room. The smile remained on his face in spite of the force of the blows, and Morrison was ___ by it. Probably just the effect they want to inspire, he thought

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: A great many prospective clients never ___ up again after the initial interview. They discover they don’t want to quit as badly as they thought. It’s going to be a pleasure to work with you on this

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: As you say,” Donatti said. He folded his ___ “Your son, Alvin Dawes Morrison, is in the Paterson School for Handicapped Children. Born with cranial brain damage. Tested IQ of 46. Not quite in the educable retarded category

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: At last Donatti ___ 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

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Before going up in the elevator, he smoked a cigarette down to the filter. Too ___ bad if it’s the last one, he thought. It tasted horrible.

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: But consider the implications. When you put a man in ___ you take away any normal sex life, you take away his liquor, his politics, his freedom of movement. No riots – or few in comparison to the number of prisons

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: But they couldn’t be watching now, in the dead of night, in his own ___ The house was grave-quiet. He looked at the cigarettes in the box for almost two minutes, unable to tear his gaze away

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Donatti drew the curtains, discovering a ___ window that looked into a bare room. No, not quite bare. There was a rabbit on the floor, eating pellets out of a dish. “Pretty bunny,” Morrison commented

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Donatti pressed a button by the windowsill. The rabbit stopped eating and began to hop about crazily. It seemed to ___ higher each time its feet struck the floor. Its fur stood out spikily in all directions. Its eyes were wild

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: Donatti put the pack on the desk. Then, smiling into Morrison’s eyes, he curled his right hand into a fist and began to ___ it down on the pack of cigarettes, which twisted and flattened

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: 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 at once he ___ away into a corner

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: During World War I, when no one on the German home front could get cigarettes, the sight of German aristocrats picking butts out of the gutter was a common ___

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: During World War II, many American women turned to pipes when they were unable to obtain cigarettes. A fascinating problem for the ___ pragmatist, Mr. Morrison

Find the two answers that best correspond to the original version of the novel: He cursed himself for getting into this. He cursed Donatti. And most of all, he cursed Jimmy McCann. How could he have done it? The son of a bitch had known. His hands trembled in their desire to get hold of Jimmy Judas McCann. Stealthily, he ___ around the study again

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?

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And then he was (to go), making his way through the crowd to the escalators. Morrison picked up the card, looked at it thoughtfully, then tucked it away in his wallet and forgot it

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: And think about what I said, Dick. Really.” And then he was gone, (to make) his way through the crowd to the escalators. Morrison picked up the card, looked at it thoughtfully, then tucked it away in his wallet and forgot it

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: For a moment he (to think) Jimmy McCann looked almost grim. Yes. A little too much, in fact. But I took it off again. I’m about right now. I was skinny before

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: In college he had (to be) a thin, pallid chain smoker buried behind huge horn-rimmed glasses. He had apparently switched to contact lenses

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: In college he had been a thin, pallid chain smoker (to bury) behind huge horn-rimmed glasses. He had apparently switched to contact lenses

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It was. A little heavier than when Morrison (to have) seen him at the Atlanta Exhibition the year before, but otherwise he looked awesomely fit.

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: It was. A little heavier than when Morrison had (to see) him at the Atlanta Exhibition the year before, but otherwise he looked awesomely fit.

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Last August. Something happened that changed my life.” He looked speculatively at Morrison and sipped his drink. “You might be (to interest)

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Look, you’ve (to get) my curiosity aroused. Can’t you just – ” “I’m sorry, Dick. I really can’t talk about it.” His voice was firm

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: McCann laughed. “You know it. Well, to put the capper on it, the doc told me I had an incipient ulcer. He told me to quit (to smoke).” McCann grimaced. “Might as well tell me to quit breathing.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Morrison nodded in perfect understanding. Nonsmokers could (to afford) to be smug. He looked at his own cigarette with distaste and stubbed it out, knowing he would be lighting another in five minutes

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Morrison was (to wait) for someone who was hung up in the air traffic jam over Kennedy International when he saw a familiar face at the end of the bar and walked down

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Morrison was waiting for someone who was (to hang) up in the air traffic jam over Kennedy International when he saw a familiar face at the end of the bar and walked down. “Jimmy? Jimmy McCann?”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: My God, Morrison (to think) with an inner wince. Jimmy McCann’s got religion

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: That’s me,” McCann said, (to get) up. He tossed a five on the bar. “Have another, if you like. And think about what I said, Dick. Really

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: Yes, I did. At first I didn’t think I’d (to be) able to – I was cheating like hell. Then I met a guy who told me about an outfit over on Forty-sixth Street. Specialists. I said what do I have to lose and went over. I haven’t smoked since

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “(to stop) really changed things for me,” McCann said. “I don’t suppose it’s the same for everyone, but with me it was just like dominoes falling over. I felt better and my relationship with Sharon improved. I had more energy, and my job performance picked up.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Dick Morrison?” “Yeah. You look great.” He extended his hand and they (to shake)

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Look, you’ve got my curiosity (to arouse). Can’t you just – ” “I’m sorry, Dick. I really can’t talk about it.” His voice was firm

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “No. (to go) to Miami for a conference. A heavy client. Bills six million. I’m supposed to hold his hand because we lost out on a big special next spring.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “So do you,” McCann said, but Morrison knew it (to be) a lie. He had been overworking, overeating, and smoking too much. “What are you drinking?”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “So do you,” McCann said, but Morrison knew it was a lie. He had been overworking, overeating, and (to smoke) too much. “What are you drinking?”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Stopping really changed things for me,” McCann said. “I don’t suppose it’s the same for everyone, but with me it was just like dominoes falling over. I felt better and my relationship with Sharon (to improve). I had more energy, and my job performance picked up.”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Sure,” he (to say), and gulped at his drink when it came. “I wasn’t in very good shape,” McCann said. “Personal problems with Sharon, my dad died – heart attack – and I’d developed this hacking cough. Bobby Crager dropped by my office one day and gave me a fatherly little pep talk. Do you remember what those are like”

Put the verb in brackets in the right form: “Yeah. You (to look) great.” He extended his hand and they shook