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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 is the date of the first entry of "Mescalito"?
(a) February 16.
(b) March 12.
(c) September 18.
(d) February 23.

2. What were the police and ambulances scrambling toward as Thompson watched in the beginning of "Mescalito"?
(a) Whiskytown Go Go.
(b) Studio 54.
(c) The L.A. Club.
(d) Whisky-a-Go-Go.

3. The clerk at the liquor store asked Thompson, "Aren't you the guy who did that ______ thing?"
(a) Las Vegas.
(b) Hell's Angels.
(c) Fear and Loathing.
(d) Nixon.

4. How many flower children walked below Thompson's window and waved at him in "Mescalito"?
(a) Four.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Ten.

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?
(a) George Herman.
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr.
(c) James Farmer, Jr.
(d) Malcolm X.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Thompson write he now had a fifth of in the beginning of "Mescalito"?

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

3. For how long had Thompson been chased and tormented by giant radioactive creatures in the Introduction?

4. Thompson wrote he had been chased and tormented by what huge radioactive creatures in the Introduction?

5. In what city did "Mescalito" take place?

(see the answer key)

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