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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Screwjack.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Thompson wrote in "Mescalito" that the little red indicator that moves along with the ball on the typewriter appeared to be made of _________.
(a) Blood.
(b) Lipstick.
(c) Watermelon.
(d) Rubies.

2. Which ad did Thompson discuss at length in "Mescalito"?
(a) Johnson and Johnson Soap.
(b) Singer Sewing Machines.
(c) Hoover Vacuum Cleaners.
(d) S.O.S. Pads.

3. What did Thompson write he thought should be last in order in the Introduction?
(a) Death of a Poet.
(b) Screwjack.
(c) Fear and Loathing.
(d) Mescalito.

4. To whom is the letter in the Introduction addressed?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Maurice.
(c) Stu.
(d) Paulo.

5. 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) Zero.
(b) Pill.
(c) Face.
(d) Note.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who composed Sonata in F Major for Oboe and Guitar?

2. Thompson wrote in the Introduction that it was as though in a previous life he had been a ______________.

3. Who called on the telephone for the second narrator in "Screwjack"?

4. The narrator described his longing for Mr. Screwjack as "wanting him so deep inside me that I will finally feel him coining on the soft red skin of my own __________."

5. Who sang "The Weight" on the radio in "Mescalito"?

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