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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. Who does Thompson encounter at the Hotel Flamingo?
(a) The bellhop from Circus-Circus.
(b) The parking lot attendant who banged up the Red Shark.
(c) His ex-wife.
(d) A crowd of police officers.

2. What does Thompson decide to do after talking with the Hotel Flamingo desk clerk in Part II, Chapter 4?
(a) Attend the seminar that night.
(b) Get the attorney to leave Las Vegas.
(c) Go to another hotel.
(d) Leave Las Vegas.

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

4. What is Thompson wearing at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 6?
(a) Shorts and a Hawaiian shirt.
(b) A Neru shirt and black pants.
(c) Torn blue jeans and a flannel shirt.
(d) Wingtips and sport coat.

5. What kind of art does the girl with the attorney in the Hotel Flamingo room do?
(a) Portraits of Nixon.
(b) Portraits of Barbra Streisand.
(c) Portraits of Debbie Reynolds.
(d) Portraits of Mick Jagger.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long is the opening session of the seminar in Part II, Chapter 7?

2. Why does Thompson stop at the gas station with the White Whale in Part II, Chapter 8?

3. Over what do Thompson and the attorney haggle with the waitress in Part II, Chapter 9?

4. How far from Baker does Thompson stop to inventory his drugs in Part II, Chapter 1?

5. What was the attorney doing when a maid enters their room in the Hotel Flamingo in Part II, Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Thompson feel when he returns to their destroyed suite at the Hotel Flamingo in Part II, Chapter 11?

2. How does Thompson’s young friend get out of his trouble, as described in Part II, Chapter 10?

3. What happened to a friend of Thompson’s in Las Vegas, as described in Part II, Chapter 10?

4. What happens with the Hotel Flamingo maid in Part II, Chapter 11 when she comes into the suite when Thompson and the attorney are there?

5. What does the waitress at the taco stand in Part II, Chapter 9 believe when Thompson and the attorney tell her they are looking for the American Dream, and what does the cook say to them?

6. What changes in the narration in Part II, Chapter 9?

7. Why does the Hotel Flamingo desk clerk accost Thompson and the attorney when they return to the hotel in Part II, Chapter 4?

8. What do Thompson and the attorney tell the DA from Georgia and what is the DA’s reaction to it?

9. Where does Thompson and the attorney sit at the first day of the convention and what are they each wearing?

10. Why does Thompson stop east of Baker and what does he get at a pharmacy?

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