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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Pages 194-223.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What major news network tried to interview Thompson but was turned away in "Bad Nerves in Fat City?"
(a) ABC News.
(b) FOX News.
(c) NBC News.
(d) CBS News.

2. What did Thompson attempt to blow up, in "Orgy of the Dead?"
(a) A Jeep.
(b) A truck.
(c) A Corvette.
(d) A motorcycle.

3. What concert did Thompson watch on "Memo from the War Room?"
(a) The Who.
(b) The Doors.
(c) The Rolling Stones.
(d) The Beatles.

4. "They Called Him Deep Throat" was split between a discussion of televangelist Pat Robertson and what Watergate conspirator?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) G. Gordon Liddy.
(c) Ralph Steadman.
(d) Ed Meese.

5. In "Lester Maddox Lives," the Supreme Court refused to overturn which anti-sodomy law?
(a) Georgia's.
(b) Arkansas'.
(c) Florida's.
(d) Kansas'.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who did Thompson take to a psychic for legal advice, in "The Gizzard of Darkness?"

2. Thompson believed who would be forced to retire, in "The Year of the Pig?"

3. What did Thompson and his friend do after the Super Bowl, in "Trapped in Harding Park?"

4. What was Thompson following in "Nixon and the Whale Woman?"

5. Who was the only person Thompson saw who could have benefited from the Iran-Contra scandal?

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