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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom did Thompson describe on Face the Nation in "Mescalito"?
(a) Hubert Humphrey.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Jimmy Carter.
(d) James Farmer.

2. In what year does "Mescalito" begin?
(a) 1967.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1968.
(d) 1971.

3. What time did Thompson write it was at the beginning of his second entry of "Mescalito"?
(a) 12:30.
(b) 1:30.
(c) 4:30.
(d) 2:30.

4. What did Thompson claim in the Introduction was what "we must deal with" today?
(a) The episode.
(b) The police.
(c) The Book.
(d) The hospital.

5. Whom did Thompson call, asking him to bring beer in "Mescalito"?
(a) Sing-li.
(b) Estes.
(c) Paulie.
(d) Oscar.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Mescalito," Thompson described his typewriter arrow "jumping along like a ___ in one of those sing-along movie shorts, bouncing from word to word with the music."

2. What did Thompson write he could do much faster than normal while under the effects of mescaline in "Mescalito"?

3. Thompson described the charwomen as prowling about the hotel like crippled ___________.

4. What newspaper did Thompson quote with the line, "Kept authorities at bay for more than an hour, claiming to be George Harrison of the Beatles"?

5. What kind of beer was Thompson drinking during his mescaline trip in "Mescalito"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Thompson describe the imagery as he began to peak? What did the typewriter look like?

2. What comparisons did Thompson make between acid and mescaline?

3. What noise was distracting Thompson in the middle of the night on February 18 in "Mescalito"? How?

4. How did Thompson feel about the hotel workers in "Mescalito"?

5. What metaphor did Thompson made in describing his brain while tripping?

6. What scene on the Pacific Coast Highway did Thompson describe in "Mescalito"?

7. To whom did Thompson make a phone call in "Mescalito"? Why?

8. What combination of drugs had Thompson taken?

9. Who was James Farmer? Why was he on the news in "Mescalito"?

10. Why had a dope freak tried to steal the Goodyear blimp in "Mescalito"?

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