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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. ______________were all over the carpet in Thompson's room.
(a) Marijuana seeds.
(b) Confetti bits.
(c) Upholstery fabric.
(d) Flower petals.

2. Hearing news of ______________ was too much for a tortured head in "Mescalito"?
(a) Jackson.
(b) Reagan.
(c) Carter.
(d) Nixon.

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

4. What "puts you out in the dark, which is more neutral" in "Mescalito"?
(a) A balcony.
(b) LSD.
(c) The press.
(d) A window.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did the car rental employee say she was moving to in "Death of a Poet"?

2. The woman in the kitchen in "Death of a Poet" was ___________.

3. Thompson wrote that ___________ was "keeping me on my rails, without it I'd be completely adrift and weird" in "Mescalito"?

4. What drug did Thompson equate mescaline as being very much like in "Mescalito"?

5. Who was screaming in the background of the headset on the plane in "Mescalito"?

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