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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Thompson wrote he had been chased and tormented by what huge radioactive creatures in the Introduction?
(a) Bobcats.
(b) Horses.
(c) Tigers.
(d) Red foxes.

3. According to Thompson, to the flower children in "Mescalito" he must have been seen as just another ________________.
(a) Fat cat.
(b) Square.
(c) Wet blanket.
(d) Old man.

4. The narrator describes Mr. Screwjack by saying, "Like my beast and my ____, my perfect dream lover, like that ghost that I must forget."
(a) Dolphin.
(b) Enemy.
(c) Feline.
(d) Mother.

5. Whom did Thompson describe on Face the Nation in "Mescalito"?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) Hubert Humphrey.
(c) James Farmer.
(d) Jimmy Carter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the date of the third entry in "Mescalito"?

2. When did the car rental employee say she was going to move in "Death of a Poet"?

3. Leach's wife had gone to the store for ___________.

4. The people would come to collect Leach's debt by _____________.

5. How many years after Mr. Screwjack's disappearance did the narrator encounter him again?

(see the answer key)

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