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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 give the car rental girl "a taste of" in "Death of a Poet"?
(a) The one-two.
(b) The long knuckle.
(c) The dusty knife.
(d) The long look.

2. Mr. Screwjack left "across the woodpile and through that shadowy hole between" what kind of tree?
(a) Aspen.
(b) Yellow Pine.
(c) Blue spruce.
(d) Hemlock.

3. What Hawaiian word for "thank you" did Thompson write in the Introduction?
(a) Aloha.
(b) Mahalo.
(c) Halou.
(d) Mahola.

4. Upon what had the narrator drooled, according to his prayer in "Screwjack"?
(a) Screwjack.
(b) High Priests.
(c) Altars.
(d) Prison walls.

5. What park did Thompson feel he was looking at in "Mescalito"?
(a) Grant Park.
(b) Bryant Park.
(c) Cauley Park.
(d) Central Park.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The second narrator told Screwjack that he was no better than that punk who fell for _____________.

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

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

5. Who called on the telephone for the second narrator in "Screwjack"?

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