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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II: Chapter 3 & 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thompson see in the carpet at the first hotel bar in Las Vegas?
(a) Roaches.
(b) Pictures of Armageddon.
(c) Blood.
(d) His mother's face.

2. To what song playing on the jukebox does Thompson have a bad reaction?
(a) “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”
(b) “Bridge Over Troubled Waters.”
(c) “Hey Jude.”
(d) “Bye, Bye, Miss American Pie.”

3. What happens to the clerk’s face at the first hotel when Thompson is talking to her in Part 1?
(a) Her face shows disgust at him.
(b) She blushes.
(c) Nothing.
(d) It turns into a moray eel.

4. Under what name is Thompson going in the hotel in Part 1, Chapter 10?
(a) Patrick Hardy.
(b) Raoul Duke.
(c) Duke Jameson.
(d) Bobby Therman.

5. What does Thompson decide to do after talking with the Hotel Flamingo desk clerk in Part II, Chapter 4?
(a) Attend the seminar that night.
(b) Go to another hotel.
(c) Leave Las Vegas.
(d) Get the attorney to leave Las Vegas.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of art does the girl with the attorney in the Hotel Flamingo room do?

2. Why does the attorney pull the car off the road in Part 1, Chapter 3?

3. How did Diane Hamby, whose body is stuffed in a refrigerator, die, according to a newspaper Thompson reads while waiting for his car in Chapter 1, Chapter 9?

4. Why does Thompson decide in Part 1, Chapter 11 that he has two more hours before the law begins to look for him?

5. When does Thompson’s lawyer leave Las Vegas?

(see the answer key)

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