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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mescalito, Pages 15 through 29.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What newspaper did Thompson quote with the line, "Kept authorities at bay for more than an hour, claiming to be George Harrison of the Beatles"?
(a) New York Times.
(b) Chicago Tribune.
(c) U.S.A. Today.
(d) L.A. Times.

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

4. To whom is the letter in the Introduction addressed?
(a) Maurice.
(b) Paulo.
(c) Cleveland.
(d) Stu.

5. For how long had Thompson been chased and tormented by giant radioactive creatures in the Introduction?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 36 weeks.
(c) 22 weeks.
(d) 5 weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. What liquor store did Thompson walk down to in the first entry of "Mescalito"?

2. What did Thompson claim he was not in his letter in the Introduction?

3. What "puts you out in the dark, which is more neutral" in "Mescalito"?

4. Thompson wrote in the Introduction that it was as though in a previous life he had been a ______________.

5. Who was a civil rights activist, a leader of the American civil rights movement of the 1940s, '50s and '60s, and the initiator and organizer of the 1961 Freedom Ride which eventually led to the desegregation of interstate busing in the United states?

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