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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Thompson feel on edge around the seminar people in Part II, Chapter 7?

2. What is the attorney wearing in the beginning of Part II, Chapter 6?

3. What is written instead of the manuscript, as explained in Part II, Chapter 9?

4. What did the person Thompson read about in the newspaper in the pharmacy parking lotdo while in jail?

5. What is Thompson wearing at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Thompson find when he enters his hotel room in Part II, Chapter 3?

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

3. What does Thompson and the attorney do with the girl in the hotel room in Part II, Chapter 3?

4. How is Thompson doing several hours after taking the attorney’s advise in Part II, Chapter 5, and what must Thompson do at noon the next day?

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

6. How does Thompson handle the situation with the Hotel Flamingo desk clerk in Part II, Chapter 4?

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

8. Why does Bruce Innes call Thompson, and what does Thompson do after he talks to Bruce? What is the outcome of the situation?

9. How long is the first session of the convention in Part II, Chapter 7, and how does Thompson feel about being there?

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

(see the answer keys)

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