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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the cause of Sandy's disturbing hallucinations?
(a) Some cheap LSD he bought in New York
(b) The LSD that the Learyites used
(c) Thoughts of the DMZ in Korea
(d) DMT, which he took at Millbrook

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

3. When Kesey returns to the warehouse after a stay in jail, what does he say to Mountain Girl?
(a) Where's my shirt?
(b) I need a new lawyer
(c) Where is everyone?
(d) Where are my pants?

4. Do outsiders have any interest in joining the Pranksters?
(a) No one knows because it's against the law to talk about them
(b) No, absolutely not
(c) Yes
(d) On a very conditional basis

5. Is the intersubjectivity for the group the same on the bus and off the bus?
(a) No
(b) It's exactly the same on and off the bus
(c) Yes, completely
(d) It depends on the temperature outside the bus

6. 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 difference
(c) The early '60s drug culture was attached to civil rights
(d) There was no early '60s drug culture

7. 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.

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

9. What is Perry Lane?
(a) Stanford's Bohemian quarter, where Kesey eventually lived while studying at Stanford
(b) It's a mythical street made famous in a Beatles song
(c) It's the name of the warehouse
(d) A street in La Honda, California where Kesey bought a house

10. When Wolfe enters the Warehouse, he mentions a banner that says:
(a) Cops Should Try This
(b) Outsiders Welcome
(c) Acid Test Graduation
(d) Outsiders Graduate after Pranksters

11. What do the Pranksters believe about people living the "straight" life?
(a) They are involved in games and not conscious of them
(b) They are good people but not interesting
(c) They pretend they are smart and they are not
(d) They play high-tech games that they don't understand

12. What do the Pranksters introduce to the Angels?
(a) Orange Juice and Kool-Aid
(b) Morphine and Amphetamines
(c) LSD and DMT
(d) Guns and spears

13. What happens to the Pranksters when they first take the bus on a test run?
(a) It breaks down and they can't fix it
(b) They decide it's better to drive an RV
(c) They drive it to Canada and realize Canada's a nice place
(d) They get stopped by a trooper but aren't ticketed

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

15. What does Wolfe compare Kesey and the Pranksters to?
(a) A religious leader and his followers
(b) A lead singer and his band
(c) An anchorman and his reporters
(d) A CEO and his staff

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Unauthorized Acid?

2. What does Wolfe compare to the Pranksters?

3. Who is Gary Goldhill?

4. Why does Kesey decide to leave Millbrook?

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

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