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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. What is in the car Thompson has in Part 1, Chapter 9?
(a) Just luggage.
(b) Souvenirs, drugs, alcohol and a gun.
(c) Nothing.
(d) A woman Thompson met at a bar.

2. What does Thompson tell his lawyer is the reason his lawyer should not come to the Flamingo?
(a) Thompson is not going to write anymore articles.
(b) Foreigners are not welcome there.
(c) The Flamingo's rooms are too small.
(d) He has left Las Vegas.

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

4. Where do Thompson and the lawyer go to see the Debbie Reynolds show?
(a) Caesar’s Palace.
(b) The Hilton Casino.
(c) The Thunder Head Casino.
(d) The Desert Inn.

5. Under what name is Thompson going in the hotel in Part 1, Chapter 10?
(a) Raoul Duke.
(b) Duke Jameson.
(c) Bobby Therman.
(d) Patrick Hardy.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was a pharmacy owner arrested, according to a newspaper Thompson reads while waiting for his car in Chapter 1, Chapter 9?

2. Where does Thompson get his credentials in Part 1?

3. Why does the attorney run a red light in Part 1, Chapter 4?

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

5. What does Thompson say they must get before they can leave for Las Vegas?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Thompson tell the lawyer they must do when they get to their room in the first hotel they stay at in Las Vegas?

2. Why and how does the hitchhiker leave the car that the attorney is driving?

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

4. 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?

5. What does Thompson do to see the race better, and what does he do when that fails?

6. What does Thompson do after the attorney threatens people in the elevator in Part I, Chapter 7, and why does the attorney feel so badly?

7. What does the attorney think when he and Thompson find the photographer’s key waiting for them?

8. What does Thompson decide to do when the attorney goes into a panic in the Circus-Circus?

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

10. What do Thompson and his attorney do right before they leave for Las Vegas?

(see the answer keys)

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