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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter XII The Bust.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do people start to call Kesey's La Honda home?
(a) The Forbidden City of the West with Kesey as Emperor
(b) A shack in the mountainside
(c) A kind of hill-country Versailles with Kesey as Sun-King
(d) Windsor Castle with Kesey as the Prince of Wales

2. Who is most likely to understand Kesey and the Merry Pranksters?
(a) John F. Kennedy and his wife Jacqueline
(b) Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement
(c) Mick Jagger and the rest of the Rolling Stones
(d) Timothy Leary and his League for Spiritual Discovery

3. When Kesey returns to SF from jail, what does he see and describes to Wolfe?
(a) He sees a city that looks more and more like Los Angeles
(b) He describes how San Francisco has slipped into sleaze and poverty
(c) He sees a city that looks like New York
(d) He sees a city flourishing with life and wealth

4. What does Kesey say happened to him in Mexico?
(a) He found an old electric suit that reminded him of Elvis Presley
(b) He slept a lot and felt better not taking drugs
(c) That when he took acid in Manzanillo, he was struck by lightning suddenly had a second skin, like an electric suit
(d) He drank Sangria and was struck by lightning

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Zonker save himself in the water when he's surrounded by suspicious black men?

2. What is the Bladder Totem?

3. What does Wolfe find distracting about Hassler?

4. What is the Leary group's view of the Pranksters?

5. What route do the Pranksters take back to California?

(see the answer key)

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