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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Death of a Poet.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Leach tell Thompson he was about to do when he arrived?
(a) Take a shower.
(b) Go to the store.
(c) Make breakfast.
(d) Slit his wrists.

2. In "Mescalito," if Thompson could get up and go to the bathroom, he would like to get a towel to hang over __________.
(a) The door.
(b) The window.
(c) The balcony.
(d) The television.

3. What did Thompson consider mixing with ice fragments to drink in "Mescalito"?
(a) Jameson's.
(b) Belvedere.
(c) Jack Daniels.
(d) Old Crow.

4. Thompson wrote in the Introduction that it was as though in a previous life he had been a ______________.
(a) Jackbastard.
(b) Earle of Denver.
(c) Washing woman.
(d) Spotted trout.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What street was Thompson's hotel overlooking in "Mescalito"?

2. When is George Washington's birthday?

3. Whom did Thompson call, asking him to bring beer in "Mescalito"?

4. 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?

5. Where did the car rental employee say she was moving to in "Death of a Poet"?

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