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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do the young women at the conference react to Kesey?
(a) They find him bizarre and stay away from him
(b) They find him very attractive
(c) They find him intelligent but hard to look at
(d) They are scared of him

2. Why is Neal Cassady well-known?
(a) He is a rock star
(b) He is a famous author
(c) He is Jack Kerouac's brother
(d) Jack Kerouac based a character on him in On the Road.

3. What route do the Pranksters take back to California?
(a) The northern route
(b) The same one they took to the east coast
(c) They go through Canada before re-entering the U.S. through Washington
(d) The midwestern route

4. How long does the Pranksters-Angels party last?
(a) Two weeks
(b) Two days
(c) Two hours
(d) Two months

5. What is the difference between the drug culture of the early '60s and the late '60s?
(a) The late '60s drug culture included electricity
(b) There was no early '60s drug culture
(c) There was no difference
(d) The early '60s drug culture was attached to civil rights

6. Where does Babbs place his writing in the warehouse?
(a) Under a bed
(b) In a box in the middle of the floor.
(c) In the closet
(d) In Kesey's belongings

7. 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

8. What happens when the Pranksters arrive at the seven-day Unitarian Conference?
(a) They offend everyone
(b) They offend the older Unitarians and intrigue the younger ones.
(c) They are popular with everyone
(d) They discover they like organized religion

9. Who is Sonny Barger?
(a) A cousin of Sonny Bono the singer
(b) The president of the Hell's Angels, famous from the Hunter S. Thompson book
(c) Sandy's cousin
(d) A novelist and motorcycle enthusiast

10. What famous literary figures show up at the Pranksters' party in New York?
(a) Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald
(b) Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
(c) John le Carre and Joseph Heller
(d) Alexandre Dumas and Charles Dickens

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

12. What does Kesey do on stage that makes the Unitarians gasp?
(a) He uses the flag like a towel to wipe his face
(b) He tears the American flag apart and gives pieces to the audience
(c) He burns the flag
(d) He steps on the American flag and grinds it into the floor.

13. What is Ken Kesey's profession?
(a) Writer
(b) Journalist
(c) Television show host.
(d) He has no profession

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

15. What do the Pranksters do ahead of the arrival of the police?
(a) They empty the house and flee into the woods
(b) They put up large signs that mock the police to let them know they're coming
(c) They burn the house down
(d) They change their appearance completely

Short Answer Questions

1. Through a long quote by Joachim Wach, how does the author describe Kesey and company?

2. What kind of shoes do the Pranksters hate the most?

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

4. What does Goldhill urge Kesey to stop telling people?

5. What are some of the regular features of life at La Honda?

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