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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. Who was the Secretary of State who was running for President in 1988?

2. The Gary Hart scandal distracted the press from what?

3. What was the chapter title "A Wild and Crazy Guy" in reference to?

4. What was the home state of President Richard Nixon?

5. In "The New Dumb," Thompson concluded that the Democratic Party had learned nothing since which election?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Thompson bring up Patrick Buchanan, in "God Bless Colonel North"?

2. How did Thompson associate schizophrenics with the Democratic Party in the text?

3. Who were the people Thompson cited, in "Swine of the Week"?

4. What were Thompson's predictions, in "The Trickle Down Theory"?

5. To whom did Hunter S. Thompson write in the end of the book? Why?

6. What metaphorical comparison did Thompson make, in "Caligula and the 7 Dwarfs"?

7. Why did Thompson speak with Lowell Harrelson and when?

8. What did Thompson detail, in "Back to the Ormsby House"?

9. What scandal took place in "The Loser's Club"? What was Thompson's suggested solution?

10. Who is described in "The Scum of the Earth"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the television news industry as depicted by Thompson in the book. How has the news industry changed in 25 years?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the relations between the United States and the U.S.S.R. during the 1980s. What is the significance of the meetings between Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the article "They Called Him Deep Throat." Who are the figures in this narrative? What was the correlation that Thompson was making?

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