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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who, in Part II, Chapter 9, claims the manuscript has become indecipherable?
(a) The attorney.
(b) The publisher.
(c) The literary critic.
(d) The editor.

2. What was the attorney doing when a maid enters their room in the Hotel Flamingo in Part II, Chapter 11?
(a) Bathing.
(b) Vomiting in his shoes.
(c) Threatening Thompson with a knife.
(d) Sleeping.

3. What does Thompson realize about the people at the convention in Part II, Chapter 6?
(a) No one is concerned with any one else’s field.
(b) The people are smart.
(c) Most of them are there because it is a job requirement.
(d) Many of them are stoned.

4. About what does the person who called Thompson in his Hotel Flamingo room in Part II, Chapter 12 have information?
(a) A couple of drug dealers down the hall.
(b) A new drug dealer on the street.
(c) The new flight schedule from Las Vegas to L.A
(d) An ape.

5. What is the last thing Thompson and the attorney tell the DA they meet in a bar?
(a) To get out of law enforcement.
(b) To do a sweep of his hometown.
(c) To look for the signs in empty buildings.
(d) Not to tell anyone what they told him.

6. What does the attorney advise Thompson to do in Part II, Chapter 5?
(a) Take a hit of adrenochrome.
(b) Take a hit of LSD.
(c) Smoke some marijuana.
(d) Swallow two mescalines.

7. Where is the DA from that Thompson and the attorney talk to in the bar?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Florida.
(c) Georgia.
(d) Mississippi.

8. For what was Thompson’s friend in Part II, Chapter 10 jailed?
(a) Joyriding.
(b) Vacancy.
(c) Drugs.
(d) Shoplifting.

9. What do Thompson and the attorney ultimately do with the girl the attorney brought with him to the Hotel Flamingo?
(a) Nothing, she leaves after Thompson gets there.
(b) Turn her over to the authorities.
(c) Take her to the Circus-Circus.
(d) Drop her off in the airport lobby.

10. What does the cook say about the waitress’s thoughts on the American Dream?
(a) She is not correct as to where Thompson should go.
(b) She does not understand English well.
(c) She has not lived long in the area and does not know the directions to anything.
(d) She is right.

11. In what condition does Thompson find his attorney when Thompson arrives at their room in the Hotel Falmaingo?
(a) Asleep.
(b) Depressed and tearful.
(c) Sober and alert.
(d) Completely wasted.

12. What were the final charges made against the two drug dealers in Part II, Chapter 10?
(a) Bribing an officer.
(b) Illegal cash laundering.
(c) Drug pushing.
(d) Tax evasion.

13. 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 police are going to run drug dogs through the hotel.
(b) The magazine has called for the work Thompson was supposed to send.
(c) The seminar is starting that evening.
(d) The girl, Lucy, has called them.

14. How does the DA in the bar act when Thompson and the attorney give specifics of crimes?
(a) Alarmed.
(b) Unbelieving.
(c) Gung-ho to kill the criminals.
(d) Contemplative.

15. Why does Thompson stop at the gas station with the White Whale in Part II, Chapter 8?
(a) To get gas.
(b) To get some munchies.
(c) To follow a car with yelling hippies in it.
(d) To put air in the tires.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bothers Thompson most about the people attending the narcotics conference?

2. Why is the person in line ahead of Thompson at the Hotel Flamingo arguing with the hotel desk clerk?

3. At what kind of food place does Thompson and the attorney stop in Part II, Chapter 9?

4. What does Thompson have to do at noon the next day after he takes the drugs in Part II, Chapter 5?

5. Where does Thompson abandon the Red Shark?

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