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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. How does the writer sleep in the poem which opens "Death of a Poet"?
(a) Clothed.
(b) Naked.
(c) Fitfully.
(d) Dreamlessly.

2. What park did Thompson feel he was looking at in "Mescalito"?
(a) Cauley Park.
(b) Central Park.
(c) Grant Park.
(d) Bryant Park.

3. To whom is the letter in the Introduction addressed?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Paulo.
(d) Stu.

4. Thompson wrote about _______________singing White Rabbit in "Mescalito."
(a) Louis Armstrong.
(b) Martin Bormann.
(c) Jefferson Airplane.
(d) Jim Morrison.

5. Thompson wrote, regarding the order of the stories, that the dramatic tension should build like _____________.
(a) Gone With the Wind.
(b) Bolero.
(c) Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
(d) The Great Gatsby.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what hotel was Thompson staying in "Mescalito"?

2. What newspaper did Thompson quote with the line, "Kept authorities at bay for more than an hour, claiming to be George Harrison of the Beatles"?

3. What did Thompson write he thought should be last in order in the Introduction?

4. In what city did Thompson write that Nixon had ordered the Condor Legion?

5. What "puts you out in the dark, which is more neutral" in "Mescalito"?

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