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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter VIII Tootling the Multitudes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Pranksters learn at a beach in New Orleans?
(a) That they thought they were in Alabama
(b) They will have to make the rest of the trip on foot
(c) It's polluted and will make them sick
(d) That it's segregated and for Blacks only

2. What do the Pransters call Kesey?
(a) CEO
(b) Chief
(c) His holiness
(d) President

3. What famous literary figures show up at the Pranksters' party in New York?
(a) Alexandre Dumas and Charles Dickens
(b) John le Carre and Joseph Heller
(c) Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
(d) Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald

4. What is Wolfe's reaction to Babb's writing?
(a) Impressed
(b) Disgusted
(c) Amused, not too serious
(d) Tickled to death

5. What is the Bladder Totem?
(a) A talisman that looks like a bladder
(b) A native American talisman
(c) A bathroom key attached to a gas can
(d) A pole that helps open the bathroom door

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Wolfe find distracting about Hassler?

2. How does Wolfe describe Cassady?

3. Where do the Merry Pranksters live?

4. Freewheeling Frank is a:

5. Kesey says he wants everyone to do their thing and be Pranksters, but he also wants them to be:

(see the answer key)

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