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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 do Thompson and the attorney find out when they return to their suite after dealing with the girl the attorney brought to the Hotel Flamingo?
(a) The magazine has called for the work Thompson was supposed to send.
(b) The girl, Lucy, has called them.
(c) The seminar is starting that evening.
(d) The police are going to run drug dogs through the hotel.

2. Where do the journalists go after the race begins?
(a) Back to their hotels, the race will last about seven hours.
(b) To the bar at the race track.
(c) Nowhere.
(d) To the finish line.

3. What does Thompson think is the way Lacerda returned to L.A.?
(a) Drove a rental car.
(b) Took the train.
(c) Greyhound bus.
(d) Airplane.

4. How many vehicles leave when the race first begins in Part 1, Chapter 5?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Ten.
(d) Twenty-five.

5. When does Thompson’s lawyer leave Las Vegas?
(a) He is staying in Las Vegas.
(b) He left that morning.
(c) Two days after Thompson.
(d) He will leave with Thompson.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is in the car Thompson has in Part 1, Chapter 9?

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

3. What magazine in Part 1, Chapter 10 says they want a 50,000 word article from Thompson?

4. Why does Thompson decide to leave Las Vegas in Part 1, Chapter 9?

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?

(see the answer key)

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