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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Screwjack.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the Luau, who could remember when Farmer was a radical?
(a) Schorr.
(b) McGarr.
(c) Nixon.
(d) Humphrey.

2. Leach told Thompson in "Death of a Poet" that he had changed his bet, gotten drunk, and ________________.
(a) Canceled the bet.
(b) Sold his car.
(c) Doubled up.
(d) Tripled the bet.

3. What did Thompson claim he was not in his letter in the Introduction?
(a) A chaste nun.
(b) A sane man.
(c) A classical writer.
(d) A brainless whore.

4. Which ad did Thompson discuss at length in "Mescalito"?
(a) Singer Sewing Machines.
(b) Johnson and Johnson Soap.
(c) S.O.S. Pads.
(d) Hoover Vacuum Cleaners.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Thompson, to the flower children in "Mescalito" he must have been seen as just another ________________.

2. Mr. Screwjack left "across the woodpile and through that shadowy hole between" what kind of tree?

3. What did Thompson worry he might wig out and demand in "Mescalito"?

4. Thompson wrote that Leach was a junkie for _____________.

5. The second narrator in "Screwjack" described grabbing the animal and squeezing him like a __________.

(see the answer key)

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