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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Mescalito, Pages 30 through 39.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What street was Thompson's hotel overlooking in "Mescalito"?
(a) Broadway.
(b) Hollywood Boulevard.
(c) Esposito Drive.
(d) Sunset Strip.

2. Who composed Sonata in F Major for Oboe and Guitar?
(a) Johann Sebastian Bach.
(b) Berlioz.
(c) Philip Glass.
(d) Charles Starkweather.

3. What "puts you out in the dark, which is more neutral" in "Mescalito"?
(a) A window.
(b) A balcony.
(c) LSD.
(d) The press.

4. In "Mescalito" Thompson wrote, "Yesterday a dope freak tried to steal the Goodyear blimp and take it to ______________."
(a) Denver.
(b) Aspen.
(c) San Francisco.
(d) Chicago.

5. Thompson wrote while under the influence of mescaline that there was not much connection between his head and his ________.
(a) Soul.
(b) Body.
(c) Mind.
(d) Heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Thompson write of sitting on the Strip, talking to off-duty hookers in "Mescalito"?

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

3. In "Mescalito," Thompson described his typewriter arrow "jumping along like a ___ in one of those sing-along movie shorts, bouncing from word to word with the music."

4. How much beer did Thompson have left, although it was too early to call for more, in "Mescalito"?

5. What did Thompson back on the balcony to get while waiting for Oscar in "Mescalito"?

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