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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. Where do the journalists go after the race begins?
(a) To the bar at the race track.
(b) Nowhere.
(c) To the finish line.
(d) Back to their hotels, the race will last about seven hours.

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

3. How did Diane Hamby, whose body is stuffed in a refrigerator, die, according to a newspaper Thompson reads while waiting for his car in Chapter 1, Chapter 9?
(a) She took an overdose of pills and climbed in the refrigerator.
(b) The cause of death is unknown.
(c) She was murdered.
(d) An overdose of heroin.

4. What kind of car are Thompson and his lawyer driving to Las Vegas?
(a) A Dodge Fury.
(b) A Ford pick-up.
(c) A Chevy convertible.
(d) A Ford mustang.

5. 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) Stabs at him with the letter opener.
(b) Threaten him with a gun.
(c) Poke him in the arm with his pen knife.
(d) Brandish his hunting knife at him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Thompson do while he is drinking at the end of Part 1, Chapter 5?

2. What is on the news at the first hotel that disturbs the attorney?

3. Where were Thompson and the lawyer when Thompson’s employer calls them in Part 1, Chapter 1?

4. How much money was the man who talked about abusing his wife given when he was taken to the bus stop?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Thompson feeling so overwhelmed at the thought of leaving Las Vegas in Part I, Chapter 11?

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

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

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

5. What does Thompson realize after the attorney pulls a gun on him in Part I, Chapter 3?

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

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

8. 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?

9. What seems to change Thompson’s plans to leave Las Vegas in Part I?

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

(see the answer keys)

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