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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 keeps the Pranksters together?
(a) Poverty
(b) Ken Kesey, drug use, and common beliefs about society
(c) Money
(d) Belief in the health insurance systems

2. Kesey says he wants everyone to do their thing and be Pranksters, but he also wants them to be:
(a) Competetent
(b) Crazy
(c) Charming
(d) Competitive

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

4. Where do the Merry Pranksters live?
(a) In a Victorian style house
(b) In a factory
(c) In a warehouse
(d) In a townhouse

5. Kesey enters Perry Lane initially as a writer but eventually becomes what?
(a) A volunteer at a shelter for battered women
(b) A volunteer in a research study on the effects of psyhoactive drugs.
(c) A student nurse
(d) A volunteer in a maternity ward

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Wolfe, what do the La Honda citizens call the Kesey colony?

2. Where does Babbs place his writing in the warehouse?

3. How was Kesey's novel received?

4. What do the Pranksters learn at a beach in New Orleans?

5. What is "Tootling the Multitudes?"

(see the answer key)

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