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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 11 & 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the lawyer do when Thompson does not do what the lawyer has asked upon returning to the hotel room in Part 1, Chapter 7?
(a) Threaten him with a gun.
(b) Brandish his hunting knife at him.
(c) Poke him in the arm with his pen knife.
(d) Stabs at him with the letter opener.

2. What is the lawyer doing when Thompson returns to the hotel room in Part 1, Chapter 7?
(a) Stabbing the pillows with a letter opener.
(b) Sleeping.
(c) Talking on the phone.
(d) Taking a bath.

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

4. What highway runs from Las Vegas to Los Angeles?
(a) Highway 66.
(b) Interstate 15.
(c) Highway 1.
(d) Bakersfield Highway.

5. 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?
(a) She was murdered.
(b) The cause of death is unknown.
(c) An overdose of heroin.
(d) She took an overdose of pills and climbed in the refrigerator.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the bar in which Thompson is sitting on the outskirts of Las Vegas, in the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 11?

2. What does Thompson tell his lawyer is the reason his lawyer should not come to the Flamingo?

3. In Part 1, Chapter 9, what does Thompson read is a main conflict in the United States?

4. Why does the attorney run a red light in Part 1, Chapter 4?

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

(see the answer key)

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