View a FREE sample

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the woman at the car rental counter doing when Thompson arrived?

2. Where did Mr. Screwjack try to coax the narrator after dinner?

3. Where did the car rental employee say she was moving to in "Death of a Poet"?

4. Who had given Thompson the numbers he'd used to place his bets?

5. What had the second narrator been doing with the cat just moments before in "Screwjack"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Leach do at the end of "Death of a Poet"?

2. What did Duke write to the Lord in "Screwjack"?

3. What did Screwjack do to the second narrator?

4. What lines open "Death of a Poet"? To whom are they attributed?

5. What did Leach tell the narrator was the savior of his marriage in "Death of a Poet"?

6. How did Duke's pleas to God change in "Screwjack"?

7. What other work had Thompson written centering on the character F.X. Leach?

8. Describe briefly the career of Hunter S. Thompson. For what genre of journalism was he known?

9. Who is described in the beginning of the letter in "Screwjack"?

10. Who was the narrator going to see in "Death of a Poet"? What mood was he in?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Describe Thompson's interaction with the employee at the car rental station in "Death of a Poet." What does this interaction show the protagonist to be?

Essay Topic 2

Describe the setting of "Mescalito." Why was Thompson at that particular location? What impact did the setting have on the events of the narrative?

Essay Topic 3

Describe and discuss the narrative style of "Death of a Poet." How does the narrative point of view in this story differ from the other selections in Screw-jack?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 749 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample