2. Thompson was anxious about _____________coming into his hotel room in "Mescalito."
(a) His mother.
(b) A maid.
(c) Oscar.
(d) His boss.

3. What did Thompson write "is all that matters--except for the horrible scars" in the Introduction?
(a) Decadence.
(b) Redemption.
(c) Mescaline.
(d) Escape.

4. When did the car rental employee say she was going to move in "Death of a Poet"?
(a) Monday.
(b) Thursday.
(c) Tuesday.
(d) Wednesday.

5. Who was a civil rights activist, a leader of the American civil rights movement of the 1940s, '50s and '60s, and the initiator and organizer of the 1961 Freedom Ride which eventually led to the desegregation of interstate busing in the United states?
(a) George Herman.
(b) James Farmer, Jr.
(c) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(d) Malcolm X.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator described his longing for Mr. Screwjack as "wanting him so deep inside me that I will finally feel him coining on the soft red skin of my own __________."

2. At the beginning of the story, how is Mr. Screwjack described?

3. Who had a twenty-fifth-floor Hilton suite in "Mescalito"?

4. What signal did the flower children wave at Thompson in "Mescalito"?

5. The narrator describes Mr. Screwjack by saying, "Like my beast and my ____, my perfect dream lover, like that ghost that I must forget."

(see the answer key)

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