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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 9 & 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why was a pharmacy owner arrested, according to a newspaper Thompson reads while waiting for his car in Chapter 1, Chapter 9?
(a) For watering down prescriptions.
(b) For private insurance fraud.
(c) For having 100,000 pills missing.
(d) For charging Medicare the wrong price.

3. In Part 1, Chapter 9, what does Thompson read is a main conflict in the United States?
(a) Between anti-war demonstrators and police.
(b) Between the culture of the 1940’s and the 1970’s.
(c) Between the gays and the straights.
(d) He does not mention any conflict.

4. Where were Thompson and the lawyer when Thompson’s employer calls them in Part 1, Chapter 1?
(a) At the golf course.
(b) At Thompson’s house.
(c) At the lawyer’s office.
(d) In the Polo lounge.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What song is playing on the radio when Thompson takes over the car in Part 1, Chapter 4?

2. How many vehicles leave when the race first begins in Part 1, Chapter 5?

3. Where do Thompson and the lawyer go to see the Debbie Reynolds show?

4. What does Thompson say the two men have to wear to Las Vegas?

5. What is the correspondent from Life magazine doing in Part 1, Chapter 5 that bothers Thompson?

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