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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. What is the name of the poem that ends "November Concluded?"
(a) "Be Angry at the Sun."
(b) "Howl."
(c) "A Dream Deferred."
(d) "Ballad of the Skeletons."

2. Why did Nixon employ Ziegler?
(a) Nixon antagonized the press too much.
(b) Nixon needed a more liberal counterpart.
(c) Nixon needed a man with military experience.
(d) Nixon is a terrible public speaker.

3. When Thompson refers to "the American Dream," what class does he posit has the most at stake in believing in that ideal?
(a) The illegal immigrants.
(b) The lower class.
(c) The upper class.
(d) The middle class.

4. Why is Thompson in his present mood in "October?"
(a) He is afraid that someone will threaten McGovern.
(b) He knows that the election will be a tight race.
(c) He feels McGovern is going to win.
(d) He feels McGovern is a lost cause.

5. After Thompson's encounter with Mankiewicz, how does the author's friend recommend they defuse the situation?
(a) Thompson should probably leave.
(b) Thompson should apologize.
(c) Mankiewicz should apologize.
(d) Mankiewicz should have a drink with Thompson.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way did the passengers on Thompson's plane assure their own entry?

2. What is the tone of "October?"

3. What did Eagleton refuse to disclose to the public and to his own party?

4. At the writing of this book, what do Americans realize about politics?

5. In "November," what begins to plague the author?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the activities of election day.

2. Why does the book turn into a series of dialogues and monologues after Chapter 11?

3. Why does the public find Mankowiecz so unsettling?

4. How does Thompson describe the drug use among the other journalists?

5. What are Thompson's feelings about Nixon?

6. In "November Concluded," what stories did Thompson tell about one of the female journalists?

7. What are some of the behaviors exhibited by the journalists on the Zoo Plane?

8. Why is Thompson the "rock-n-roll emissary" for politics?

9. What are Thompson's opinions on what Americans want from their leaders?

10. In what ways is Thompson introducing new readers to the world of politics?

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