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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. What does Zappa want to call the first GTO album?

2. What does Pamela say she lives with attached to her ear?

3. What band do Pam and Mercy see for the first time at the Whiskey?

4. To what group does Cynthia introduce Pamela?

5. What instrument did Noel Redding play with the Jimi Hendrix Experience?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Mercy the only one of Pam's friends to join her at the Burritos' gig?

2. What is Pam's opinion of Jim Morrison?

3. How do Pam and her friends get the name GTOs?

4. Why is Pamela worried about her friends in Chapter 4?

5. How does Pamela's life get better at the end of Chapter 4?

6. What is Pam's opinion of the hippy scene?

7. What are Pamela's New Year's resolutions?

8. How does Pam get to meet Mick Jagger?

9. How does Frank Zappa encourage the GTOs?

10. How do Pam and her friends try to attract the Stones while they are in their hotel?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did many people become disillusioned in the 1970s? What did the 1960s promise that the 1970s couldn't bring? How does Pam express the disillusionment in the book?

Essay Topic 2

Why are the Sixties seen as such as an important era? What was life in America like before the Sixties?

Essay Topic 3

Examine the book's reception in three different countries including the country the book was written. How do their opinions about the books differ? Was the book more influential in one country than another? If so, why?

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