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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. ______________were all over the carpet in Thompson's room.
(a) Marijuana seeds.
(b) Flower petals.
(c) Upholstery fabric.
(d) Confetti bits.

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

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."
(a) Pill.
(b) Zero.
(c) Note.
(d) Face.

4. What did Thompson write he could do much faster than normal while under the effects of mescaline in "Mescalito"?
(a) Dance.
(b) Type.
(c) Think.
(d) Walk.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Mescalito," what did Thompson describe as an unbearable experience that would blow the top right off his head?

2. What did Thompson write he thought should be last in order in the Introduction?

3. How much beer did Thompson have to conserve while waiting for Oscar to arrive in "Mescalito"?

4. What drug did Thompson equate mescaline as being very much like in "Mescalito"?

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

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