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

2. What has the Vietnam vet Babbs written and shown to Wolfe?
(a) A gun
(b) A picture of a Vietnamese war prison
(c) A letter from John McCain
(d) A novel

3. What happens to Sandy in this part of the story?
(a) He starts his own academic study of LSD at Columbia University
(b) He defects to the Leary group
(c) He loses control of himself, makes a scene and has to leave the group
(d) He stops taking LSD and decides he wants to leave

4. What happens after the bust on La Honda?
(a) The government seizes the land and imprisons the group
(b) Kesey is charged with tax fraud and is taken into custody
(c) Kesey and Page Browning are charged with pot possession and the Pranksters' popularity increases
(d) The Pranksters's popularity plummets

5. How does Zonker save himself in the water when he's surrounded by suspicious black men?
(a) He offers to give them all rides home
(b) He offers them free drugs
(c) He swims quickly to shore without saying a thing
(d) He smiles a long drug-induced smile that wins them over

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does the author Tom Wolfe first meet Kesey?

2. Where was Kesey born and raised?

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

4. Kesey says some people are good at understanding themselves but not:

5. What does Kesey have enameled on one of his teeth?

(see the answer key)

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