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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What television show did the narrator describe watching with Mr. Screwjack?
(a) Johnny Carson.
(b) Oprah Winfrey.
(c) Phil Donahue.
(d) Saturday Night Live.

2. Which car did the woman at the car rental counter tell Thompson to take?
(a) Any car he wanted.
(b) The blue car.
(c) The yellow Volkswagen.
(d) The Neon sedan.

3. According to the narrator, where did someone go after Real Estate School?
(a) El Centro.
(b) New York.
(c) Los Angeles.
(d) Sacramento.

4. What did Leach do at the end of "Death of a Poet"?
(a) Shot a police officer.
(b) Shot himself.
(c) Hung himself.
(d) Shot his wife.

5. What had the second narrator been doing with the cat just moments before in "Screwjack"?
(a) Watching television.
(b) Walking on the beach.
(c) Reading a bedtime story.
(d) Smoking marijuana.

6. The dawn in the beginning of "Screwjack" is described as cold and ____________.
(a) Wet.
(b) Sunny.
(c) Sunless.
(d) Gloomy.

7. Who had failed in discussing the Packers?
(a) The Magic Man.
(b) The Big Brother.
(c) The Magic Casey.
(d) The Great Giant.

8. What is the tunnel made of in the poem which opens "Death of a Poet"?
(a) Stone.
(b) Fire.
(c) Water.
(d) Ice.

9. What had Leach been drinking when he changed his bet?
(a) Whiskey.
(b) Gin.
(c) Schnapps.
(d) Vodka.

10. What did Thompson begin looking for in the kitchen after seeing the woman?
(a) A fork.
(b) A pan.
(c) A knife.
(d) A gun.

11. Where was the narrator's tattoo located?
(a) His shoulder.
(b) His forearm.
(c) His chest.
(d) His back.

12. The second narrator in "Screwjack" writes that after having been bitten, he "stared down at him very intently from a distance of" how many inches?
(a) 11 or 12.
(b) 5 or 6.
(c) 7 or 8.
(d) 17 or 18.

13. What does the writer do in the tunnel in the poem which opens "Death of a Poet"?
(a) Cries.
(b) Sings.
(c) Sleeps.
(d) Drinks.

14. The narrator described at the beginning of "Screwjack" that a crust of snow had formed on the porch since ____________.
(a) Midnight.
(b) Dawn.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Yesterday.

15. How many years after Mr. Screwjack's disappearance did the narrator encounter him again?
(a) Sven.
(b) Nine.
(c) Six.
(d) Eight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was a friend of F. X. Leach in a 1992 Rolling Stone article by Hunter S. Thompson?

2. The narrator describes Mr. Screwjack by saying, "Like my beast and my ____, my perfect dream lover, like that ghost that I must forget."

3. What did Thompson see upon entering the kitchen?

4. What did Thompson go to the kitchen to get in "Death of a Poet"?

5. Where did Mr. Screwjack bite the second narrator as he was petting him?

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