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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. What did Thompson write he didn't miss at all, most days, in the Introduction?
(a) His lover.
(b) His cat.
(c) His wife.
(d) His memory.

2. Thompson wrote in the letter in the Introduction that he had been unable to be contacted by anyone but whom?
(a) The Doctors.
(b) The Animals.
(c) The Holtz family.
(d) The Bushmen.

3. Whom did Thompson describe on Face the Nation in "Mescalito"?
(a) Jimmy Carter.
(b) Hubert Humphrey.
(c) James Farmer.
(d) Richard Nixon.

4. What did Thompson write "is all that matters--except for the horrible scars" in the Introduction?
(a) Escape.
(b) Redemption.
(c) Decadence.
(d) Mescaline.

5. What time did Thompson write it was at the beginning of his second entry of "Mescalito"?
(a) 2:30.
(b) 12:30.
(c) 1:30.
(d) 4:30.

Short Answer Questions

1. The clerk at the liquor store asked Thompson, "Aren't you the guy who did that ______ thing?"

2. Where did Thompson write of people howling over late deadlines in "Mescalito"?

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

4. What Hawaiian word for "thank you" did Thompson write in the Introduction?

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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