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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mescalito, Pages 30 through 39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what city did "Mescalito" take place?
(a) Los Angeles.
(b) Las Vegas.
(c) New York.
(d) Denver.

2. What happened when Thompson first tried to call Oscar in "Mescalito"?
(a) The line was busy.
(b) Oscar's wife answered.
(c) No one was home.
(d) He got the answering machine.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What veteran CBS journalist did Thompson describe as being condescending in "Mescalito"?

2. In "Mescalito" Thompson wrote, "Yesterday a dope freak tried to steal the Goodyear blimp and take it to ______________."

3. How many flower children walked below Thompson's window and waved at him in "Mescalito"?

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

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

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