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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to a sales jingle quoted by Thompson, "We cannot tell a lie, our machines will ___ you into a bag so fast you'll think you went blind."
(a) Sew.
(b) Tie.
(c) Zip.
(d) Bind.

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

3. What did Thompson write he didn't miss at all, most days, in the Introduction?
(a) His lover.
(b) His cat.
(c) His memory.
(d) His wife.

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) Spotted trout.
(d) Washing woman.

5. What station did Thompson promise to send a check to in "Mescalito"?
(a) KWER.
(b) WKRP.
(c) KPPR.
(d) KPFK.

6. What did Thompson write he now had a fifth of in the beginning of "Mescalito"?
(a) Crown Royal.
(b) Gentleman Jack.
(c) Louis Martini Barbera.
(d) Sobieski.

7. What did Thompson creep across the room to get to help with the sunlight in "Mescalito"?
(a) Sunglasses.
(b) A lamp shade.
(c) An umbrella.
(d) A window blind.

8. In the Introduction, where was Thompson placed after his escape?
(a) A holding cell.
(b) A mental institution.
(c) A Decompression Chamber.
(d) An enforced labor camp.

9. Thompson wrote that ___________ was "keeping me on my rails, without it I'd be completely adrift and weird" in "Mescalito"?
(a) The typewriter.
(b) The television.
(c) The radio.
(d) The telephone.

10. Thompson wrote about _______________singing White Rabbit in "Mescalito."
(a) Martin Bormann.
(b) Jim Morrison.
(c) Jefferson Airplane.
(d) Louis Armstrong.

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

12. Thompson wrote in "Mescalito" while tripping that his eyes felt bigger than____________.
(a) Oranges.
(b) Pears.
(c) Apples.
(d) Grapefruits.

13. In what city did "Mescalito" take place?
(a) Denver.
(b) New York.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Las Vegas.

14. What had gone off in the night in Thompson's second entry from "Mescalito"?
(a) The fire alarm.
(b) A police siren.
(c) His alarm.
(d) A tornado alert.

15. What Hawaiian word for "thank you" did Thompson write in the Introduction?
(a) Aloha.
(b) Mahola.
(c) Mahalo.
(d) Halou.

Short Answer Questions

1. Thompson arrived back from a tour of the Soviet Union and _____________.

2. Hearing news of ______________ was too much for a tortured head in "Mescalito"?

3. Thompson wrote in "Mescalito" that the little red indicator that moves along with the ball on the typewriter appeared to be made of _________.

4. To whom is the letter in the Introduction addressed?

5. In the opening of "Mescalito" Thompson was full of pills, club sandwiches, and _____________.

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