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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. The address given to Thompson by his friend turned out to be a_____________.
(a) Apartment complex.
(b) Cabin.
(c) Trailer park.
(d) Subdivision.

2. What date is the second entry of "Mescalito"?
(a) March 12.
(b) February 18.
(c) February 20.
(d) February 19.

3. Thompson wrote that ___________ was "keeping me on my rails, without it I'd be completely adrift and weird" in "Mescalito"?
(a) The television.
(b) The radio.
(c) The typewriter.
(d) The telephone.

4. With whom did Thompson write of sitting on the Strip, talking to off-duty hookers in "Mescalito"?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Lionel.
(c) James.
(d) Arnold.

5. How many flower children walked below Thompson's window and waved at him in "Mescalito"?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Thompson describe on Face the Nation in "Mescalito"?

2. In what establishment was Thompson in the beginning of "Death of a Poet"?

3. Thompson wrote in the Introduction that it was as though in a previous life he had been a ______________.

4. What did Thompson believe Leach had done when he saw the woman in the kitchen?

5. What did Leach do at the end of "Death of a Poet"?

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