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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XVI The Frozen Jug Band.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Kesey want to document the road trip?
(a) He wants evidence in case he has to go to court someday
(b) He worries that his memory is fading
(c) He wants to become a filmmaker
(d) He wants to capture the amazing things that will happen while on drugs

2. Who is Sonny Barger?
(a) The president of the Hell's Angels, famous from the Hunter S. Thompson book
(b) A novelist and motorcycle enthusiast
(c) A cousin of Sonny Bono the singer
(d) Sandy's cousin

3. How does Zonker save himself in the water when he's surrounded by suspicious black men?
(a) He swims quickly to shore without saying a thing
(b) He offers them free drugs
(c) He smiles a long drug-induced smile that wins them over
(d) He offers to give them all rides home

4. Kesey, while working as a night attendant in psych ward writes what famous novel?
(a) What to Expect when You're Expecting
(b) The Assassin
(c) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
(d) Catch-22

5. According to the author, what was the original intent of the trip?
(a) It was a great bursting out of La Honda into an unsuspecting America.
(b) To get to New York as cheaply as possible
(c) To see who could drive the bus best
(d) To see who could drive best under the influence of LSD

Short Answer Questions

1. Kesey enters Perry Lane initially as a writer but eventually becomes what?

2. What drew the Hell's Angels to the Kesey?

3. What is Perry Lane?

4. What is the cause of Sandy's disturbing hallucinations?

5. What do the Pranksters introduce to the Angels?

(see the answer key)

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