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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. For what does Thompson tell the hitchhiker he and the lawyer are searching?
(a) He does not tell the hitchhiker anything, he is pretending to sleep.
(b) A new hometown for Thompson.
(c) Thompson's son.
(d) The American Dream.

2. Why is the lawyer upset at the photographer sent for Thompson?
(a) The lawyer thinks the photographer took a woman from the lawyer.
(b) He does not like to have his picture taken.
(c) The photographer made a remark about the lawyer’s brains.
(d) The lawyer does not want to have to follow the photographer and Thompson around.

3. Why was Thompson almost arrested in Part 1?
(a) He yells about reptiles in the hotel lobby.
(b) He hit the lawyer.
(c) He did not pay for his drinks in the bar.
(d) He relieved himself in the hotel lobby's planter.

4. What is the correspondent from Life magazine doing in Part 1, Chapter 5 that bothers Thompson?
(a) He is drunk and slumped over the bar.
(b) He is snorting cocaine in public.
(c) He is being too aggressive with a woman.
(d) He is trying to pick-up Thompson.

5. What does the lawyer do when he begins to feel the effects of the mescaline in Part 1, Chapter 6?
(a) He passes out.
(b) He panics.
(c) He throws up.
(d) He gets up on the stage.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Thompson fend off the lawyer in their hotel room in Part 1, Chapter 7?

2. What did Thompson decide to do after talking with the individual he gave as an example of long term drug use?

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?

4. What happens to the clerk’s face at the first hotel when Thompson is talking to her in Part 1?

5. What does Thompson tell his lawyer they must do before dark in Part 1, Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What was the result of Thompson’s encounter with the person in his story about the effects of long-term drug use?

2. How does Thompson get started on his journey to Las Vegas?

3. What does Thompson’s lawyer ask him to do when Thompson finds him in the bathtub? What is the result of that request?

4. How does the man in the Harley-Davidson shirt get to the Mint 400 race?

5. Where does Thompson stop in Baker, California, and how is he feeling while he is there?

6. Why is Hunter Thompson going to Las Vegas at the beginning of the book?

7. What does Thompson describe about his run in with a Highway Patrol Officer?

8. What is the thought that finally spurs Thompson to leave Las Vegas in Part I, Chapter 11?

9. What does Thompson notice about other journalists at the Mint 400, and how does he feel about what he sees?

10. Where is Thompson’s lawyer when Thompson decides to leave Las Vegas in Part I, Chapter 9, and what does the lawyer leave with Thompson?

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