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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Kesey enters Perry Lane initially as a writer but eventually becomes what?
(a) A student nurse
(b) A volunteer at a shelter for battered women
(c) A volunteer in a research study on the effects of psyhoactive drugs.
(d) A volunteer in a maternity ward

4. What keeps the Pranksters together?
(a) Belief in the health insurance systems
(b) Poverty
(c) Money
(d) Ken Kesey, drug use, and common beliefs about society

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

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

7. Who are the Young Turks?
(a) Three maverick business people
(b) Three young students from Turkey
(c) Three Unitarian Ministers who attended the Pranksters-Angels party
(d) Three Nuns from Turkey

8. What is Unauthorized Acid?
(a) Foreign LSD
(b) Acid that hasn't passed FDA standards
(c) An amount not approved by the government
(d) A big gulp, not the measured cup of LSD-laced orange juice

9. How do Kesey and his crew travel?
(a) In a wildly painted 1939 international Harvester school bus
(b) In a station wagon
(c) In a group of motorcycles
(d) In an RV

10. Kesey says some people are good at understanding themselves but not:
(a) The Greater Whole
(b) Their pets
(c) The government
(d) Their parents

11. Through a long quote by Joachim Wach, how does the author describe Kesey and company?
(a) Interesting but he questions why he's writing a book about them
(b) As a group that functions better than most families
(c) As a group that has, for the most part, broken away from mainstream society
(d) Insufferable and stupid

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

13. What happens to Sandy after taking Unauthorized Acid?
(a) He salutes everyone he meets
(b) He thinks it should be the official dosage
(c) He goes on a really bad acid trip
(d) It has no effect on him

14. Where do the Merry Pranksters live?
(a) In a factory
(b) In a Victorian style house
(c) In a warehouse
(d) In a townhouse

15. What is the Leary group's view of the Pranksters?
(a) They're a group of California crazies
(b) They're too quiet
(c) They're impressed and hope they return soon
(d) They have bad taste in clothing

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Gary Goldhill?

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

3. Sandy believes that Kesey is most interested in the forest as:

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

5. What does Kesey say happened to him in Mexico?

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