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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 did Thompson bet against in the Chicago Bears game in "Meat Sickness?"
(a) New England Patriots.
(b) New Orleans Saints.
(c) New York Giants.
(d) Seattle Mariners.

2. Who was trying to interview Thompson in "Bad Nerves in Fat City" when the interview was disrupted by an angry woman pounding on the hotel room door?
(a) Dan Roberts.
(b) Dan Rather.
(c) Wolf Blitzer.
(d) Dan Hinkle.

3. What Haitian dictator had fallen, in "Kill Them Before They Eat?"
(a) Doc Dontiole.
(b) Pierre Beaudrioux.
(c) Baby Doc Duvalier.
(d) Baby Dontiole.

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

5. Based on whose seeming advice did Thompson place his bet in "Meat Sickness?"
(a) The Pope.
(b) Ralph Nader's.
(c) President Reagan's.
(d) Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Dealing with Pigs," Thompson doubted there was a connection between violence and what?

2. Where did Thompson wish the Filipino president would be sent, in "Memo from the War Room?"

3. Where did Ted Kennedy drive off a bridge?

4. In "The Worst People in the World," Thompson claimed to be applying for what?

5. What was Thompson's girlfriend getting a tattoo of in "Saturday Night in the City"?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Thompson explain the Khadafy situation in "The American Century"?

2. What did Thompson receive in "Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll"? What were his conclusions of it?

3. Where did Thompson go in "The Beast with Three Backs"? Why?

4. Who did Thompson meet with, in "The Turk Comes to TV News"? What was the subject of this meeting?

5. What was Thompson doing in "Nixon and the Whale Woman"? Why?

6. Who was Thompson's attorney trying to save in "Deported to Malaysia"? What did Thompson do?

7. What did Thompson state in his author's note that he cited more than any other source? Why?

8. What did Thompson assert of Robertson, in "Rise of the TV Preachers"?

9. What took place in "Saturday Night in the City"? Who are the main figures in the story?

10. Who was Ralph Steadman? How did Thompson describe him?

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