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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Death of a Poet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whom did Thompson write of in Jerusalem in "Mescalito"?
(a) Andrew Watson.
(b) Michael Stewart.
(c) Melvin Laird.
(d) Anthony Hatch.

2. Whom did Thompson describe on Face the Nation in "Mescalito"?
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) James Farmer.
(c) Hubert Humphrey.
(d) Richard Nixon.

3. Who was a friend of F. X. Leach in a 1992 Rolling Stone article by Hunter S. Thompson?
(a) Bill Clinton.
(b) Richard Nixon.
(c) Clarence Thomas.
(d) Jimmy Carter.

4. In what year does "Mescalito" begin?
(a) 1968.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1971.
(d) 1967.

5. What were the police and ambulances scrambling toward as Thompson watched in the beginning of "Mescalito"?
(a) The L.A. Club.
(b) Whisky-a-Go-Go.
(c) Studio 54.
(d) Whiskytown Go Go.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Thompson write of sitting on the Strip, talking to off-duty hookers in "Mescalito"?

2. What had Thompson and his friend recently bet on in "Death of a Poet"?

3. What was the name of Leach's "punching bag" in "Death of a Poet"?

4. What park did Thompson feel he was looking at in "Mescalito"?

5. Thompson wrote in the letter in the Introduction that he had been unable to be contacted by anyone but whom?

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