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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What park did Thompson feel he was looking at in "Mescalito"?
(a) Central Park.
(b) Grant Park.
(c) Cauley Park.
(d) Bryant Park.

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

3. In "Mescalito" Thompson wrote, "Yesterday a dope freak tried to steal the Goodyear blimp and take it to ______________."
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Aspen.
(d) Denver.

4. Thompson described the charwomen as prowling about the hotel like crippled ___________.
(a) Coyotes.
(b) Pigeons.
(c) Rats.
(d) Wolves.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when Thompson first tried to call Oscar in "Mescalito"?

2. What did Thompson back on the balcony to get while waiting for Oscar in "Mescalito"?

3. What did Thompson write he didn't miss at all, most days, in the Introduction?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. To what radio station did Thompson vow to send a check? Why?

2. What conflicts did Thompson face in "Mescalito" after his drug trip began?

3. What comparisons did Thompson make between acid and mescaline?

4. To whom did Thompson make a phone call in "Mescalito"? Why?

5. What interactions had Thompson had with the Hell's Angels? When was this cited in "Mescalito"?

6. What drug had Thompson never before had in "Mescalito"? What were his initial experiences like?

7. Who was Oscar in "Mescalito"?

8. What metaphor did Thompson made in describing his brain while tripping?

9. Who passed below Thompson's hotel room in "Mescalito"? What interaction did they have?

10. What did Thompson describe embedded in the carpet of his room in "Mescalito"? What had it reminded him of?

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