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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Thompson begin looking for in the kitchen after seeing the woman?
(a) A knife.
(b) A fork.
(c) A pan.
(d) A gun.

2. 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 telephone.
(c) The radio.
(d) The television.

3. When Mr. Screwjack left, the narrator wrote "And then he was gone, with no noise, like some ____ from my other world."
(a) Ghost.
(b) Memory.
(c) Monster.
(d) Alien.

4. What devastated the Duke Estate in "Screwjack"?
(a) The Great Firestorm.
(b) The Great Tsunami.
(c) The Great Earthquake.
(d) The Great Tornado.

5. When did Thompson write that "it started" in his letter in the Introduction?
(a) Christmas.
(b) Groundhog Day.
(c) Valentine's Day.
(d) Halloween.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What park did Thompson feel he was looking at in "Mescalito"?

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

4. Whom did Thompson feel like while conversing with the flower children in "Mescalito"?

5. What is the tunnel made of in the poem which opens "Death of a Poet"?

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