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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1: Chapter 11 & 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the hitchhiker do when the attorney pulls the car off the road in Part 1, Chapter 3?
(a) Takes over driving.
(b) Gives the lawyer a cup of coffee.
(c) Makes the lawyer a sandwich.
(d) Flees into the desert.

2. Why does the attorney pull the car off the road in Part 1, Chapter 3?
(a) He is pretending to have a heart attack.
(b) He is getting sleepy.
(c) He wants something to eat.
(d) He pretends the car is broken.

3. What does the lawyer do when Thompson does not do what the lawyer has asked upon returning to the hotel room in Part 1, Chapter 7?
(a) Poke him in the arm with his pen knife.
(b) Brandish his hunting knife at him.
(c) Threaten him with a gun.
(d) Stabs at him with the letter opener.

4. What does the lawyer ask Thompson to do when Thompson returns to the hotel room in Part 1, Chapter 7?
(a) See if there are any drugs in the ruined pillows.
(b) Talk to the man he has on the phone.
(c) Throw the radio in the tub.
(d) He does not ask Thompson to do anything, he is sleeping.

5. What does Thompson say they must get before they can leave for Las Vegas?
(a) A car and their astrology forecast for predicting their gambling.
(b) Cocaine and luggage.
(c) A tape recorder, a gun, and some maps.
(d) A car, cocaine and a tape recorder.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What does Thompson do to keep the hitchhiker from getting suspicious as to the men’s condition in Part 1?

4. Where do the journalists go after the race begins?

5. What does Thompson do while he is waiting for his car to be brought to him in Part 1, Chapter 9?

(see the answer key)

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