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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where did Thompson have his first hits of LSD?
2. What does the hitchhiker do when the attorney pulls the car off the road in Part 1, Chapter 3?
3. Why does the attorney pull the car off the road in Part 1, Chapter 3?
4. What kind of shirt does the man who talks about physically abusing his wife wear?
5. Where do Thompson and the lawyer go to see the Debbie Reynolds show?
Short Essay Questions
1. What does Thompson describe about his run in with a Highway Patrol Officer?
2. What seems to change Thompson’s plans to leave Las Vegas in Part I?
3. What story does Thompson tell readers about the effects of long term drug use?
4. What happens to the attorney on the way to the racetrack in Part 1, and what does Thompson do about it?
5. What bothers Thompson about the newspaper he is reading while waiting for his car to be brought to him in Part I, Chapter 9?
6. Why does Thompson decide to leave Las Vegas in Part I, Chapter 9?
7. What does the attorney think when he and Thompson find the photographer’s key waiting for them?
8. What worries Thompson about his and his attorney’s behavior in front of the hitchhiker, and what does Thompson decide to do about it?
9. Why is Hunter Thompson going to Las Vegas at the beginning of the book?
10. Why and how does the hitchhiker leave the car that the attorney is driving?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
People are an integral and important part of almost all literature. Discuss the following:
Compare/contrast the personalities and beliefs of Thompson and the attorney. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? What are their strengths and weaknesses? Are they people with or without any redeeming qualities? Be specific and give examples.
Essay Topic 2
Thompson and his attorney consume massive amounts of drugs in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Discuss the destruction of property, the violence, immoral behavior and inability to behave in a socially acceptable manner due to the drugs the two men use. Use examples from the text to support your answer.19. Discuss the following:
Do you think most people want a happy ending in a book? Do you think Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas would qualify as a book with a happy ending? Why or why not? What do you think are three reasons to read fictionalized memoir and do you think Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas fulfills these three reasons? Why or why not?
Essay Topic 3
The attorney fills a young girl full of drugs and then uses her sexually.
Discuss why what the attorney does with Lucy is rape and whether you think he should be prosecuted or not. Discuss reasons Lucy might have for being in the room with him. Use examples from the text to support your answer.
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