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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Wolfe compare to the Pranksters?
(a) A polygamist cult
(b) A massive psychological encounter group
(c) The Army
(d) The Federal government

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

4. Who is Gary Goldhill?
(a) An English reporter for the Oracle
(b) A tourist curious to meet Kesey
(c) An English songwriter
(d) Kesey's equivalent in the U.K.

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

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

7. What kind of shoes do the Pranksters hate the most?
(a) Black Shiny Shoes
(b) Black Matte Shoes
(c) Unshined shoes
(d) High-heeled shoes

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

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

10. Where does Kesey go to do graduate work?
(a) Columbia
(b) Yale
(c) Stanford
(d) Berkeley

11. After doing a lot of talking, Kesey emerges from the bus with what on his face?
(a) Day Glo paint
(b) A huge swath of adhesive tape over his mouth
(c) Women's makeup
(d) The sign of the cross over his forehead

12. What does Cassady do when driving over the Blue Ridge Mountains?
(a) He doesn't put his hands on the wheel
(b) He doesn't use the lights
(c) He sings opera very loudly
(d) He doesn't use the brakes

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

14. Where do Kesey and the Pranksters go?
(a) Philadelphia
(b) New York
(c) Chicago
(d) Mexico City

15. 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) A novelist and motorcycle enthusiast
(d) Sandy's cousin

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Kesey, while working as a night attendant in psych ward writes what famous novel?

4. What do the Pranksters introduce to the Angels?

5. What does Kenneth Babbs introduce to the new Kesey colony?

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