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

2. How does Wolfe describe Cassady?
(a) He can't because Cassady is impossible to get to know
(b) A rock.The most dependable of all the Pranksters
(c) Bizarre. He speaks in a most unusual language
(d) Not dependable at all

3. According to Wolfe, what do the La Honda citizens call the Kesey colony?
(a) Junkies
(b) Prophets
(c) Ninnies
(d) Scholars

4. Where does the author Tom Wolfe first meet Kesey?
(a) In prison
(b) In a library
(c) In a coffee shop
(d) In the psych ward

5. 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

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Kesey and his cohorts wear?

2. Where do Kesey and the Pranksters go?

3. What do the Pranksters do ahead of the arrival of the police?

4. Where do the Pranksters go to meet Leary?

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

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