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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. Who meets Thompson at the airport?
(a) Lester Bangs.
(b) Jack Ackerman.
(c) Gene Skinner.
(d) Ralph Steadman.

2. What does Kipling warn westerners not to do in Naulahka?
(a) Rise to God status.
(b) Eat raw fish.
(c) Hustle the east.
(d) Praise Hawaii.

3. What does Ackerman say he can see from his front porch?
(a) The City of Refuge.
(b) The Captain Cook statue.
(c) Kono.
(d) New York.

4. Which member of his family does Ralph worry about in this section?
(a) His wife.
(b) His son.
(c) His daughter.
(d) His mother.

5. Whose letters are printed in the book?
(a) Mark Twain's.
(b) Lono's.
(c) Captain Cook's.
(d) Rudyard Kipling's.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in Hawaii can even the worst people find solace?

2. What does Gene dissuade Hunter from doing?

3. What is making it impossible to leave the island?

4. What is the name of the Hawaiian God?

5. Which of the following does Pele take the form of?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Hunter S. Thompson come in possession of a Samoan War Club?

2. What does William Ellis say about the City of Refuge in his journal?

3. Describe three of Steadman's surf related pictures in this chapter?

4. Why does Thompson apply aloe mush to Ralph's back?

5. What role do Lono and Pele play in Hawaiian culture?

6. Why does Ralph refuse to go to South Shore?

7. How does Hunter report on the marathon in this section?

8. How were the makahiki games founded?

9. Why is Hunter irritable?

10. Describe the opening setting in the Fire and Nuts chapter?

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