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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter IV What Do You Think of My Buddha?.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Does the Pranksters' way of life strike the author as odd?
(a) He doesn't care how they live
(b) Yes
(c) He hasn't made up his mind
(d) No

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

5. What is the name that Kesey gives his group?
(a) The Leary Wannabes
(b) The Jolly Pranksters
(c) The Merry Politicians
(d) The Merry Pranksters

Short Answer Questions

1. What has the Vietnam vet Babbs written and shown to Wolfe?

2. What do the Pranksters believe about people living the "straight" life?

3. What does Wolfe compare Kesey and the Pranksters to?

4. Why is Neal Cassady well-known?

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

(see the answer key)

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