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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 134-162.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Thompson refer to as an evil but inescapable business in "Full-time Scrambling?"
(a) Politics.
(b) Television.
(c) Writing.
(d) Radio.

2. Boca Chica was the most popular bar where?
(a) New York.
(b) Key West.
(c) Casablanca.
(d) Miami.

3. Who did Thompson make a bet with, in "Midnight in the Desert?"
(a) Ralph Welch.
(b) Jack Parker.
(c) Skinner.
(d) John Parker.

4. Thompson criticized Reagan's what, in "Welcome to the Tunnel?"
(a) Meeting with Gorbachev.
(b) Foreign policy.
(c) War on drugs.
(d) Race relations.

5. Thompson argues that for years the Chinese government had tried to eliminate what but failed, in "Down to a Sunless Sea?"
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Opium.
(c) Heroin.
(d) Morphine.

Short Answer Questions

1. The friend who called Thompson in "Showdown in the Pig Palace" was what profession?

2. Where was Thompson at the beginning of "Strictly Business?"

3. Where was Thompson trying to go in "Last Train from Chicago?"

4. In "The Hellfire Club," Thompson compared politicians' and evangelists' affairs to British men in what century?

5. What major news network tried to interview Thompson but was turned away in "Bad Nerves in Fat City?"

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