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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was Kesey born and raised?
(a) In La Honda, California
(b) No one really knows and he won't tell.
(c) In Portland, Oregon
(d) La Junta, Colorado. Raised in Springfield, Oregon.

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

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

4. What drink is in the bus fridge and laced with LSD?
(a) Cranberry Juice
(b) Vodka
(c) Water
(d) Orange Juice

5. What style of writing does Wolfe describe he's using in telling this story?
(a) Hysterical Journalism
(b) Magical Realism
(c) Hysterical Realism
(d) Simple prose

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

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

8. What is the Bladder Totem?
(a) A talisman that looks like a bladder
(b) A pole that helps open the bathroom door
(c) A native American talisman
(d) A bathroom key attached to a gas can

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

10. What drew the Hell's Angels to the Kesey?
(a) His comformist philosophy
(b) His good looks
(c) His very expensive house
(d) The marijuana charges against him

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

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

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

14. What does Kesey say happened to him in Mexico?
(a) That when he took acid in Manzanillo, he was struck by lightning suddenly had a second skin, like an electric suit
(b) He slept a lot and felt better not taking drugs
(c) He drank Sangria and was struck by lightning
(d) He found an old electric suit that reminded him of Elvis Presley

15. What do the Pransters call Kesey?
(a) President
(b) CEO
(c) His holiness
(d) Chief

Short Answer Questions

1. When Wolfe enters the Warehouse, he mentions a banner that says:

2. What happens when the Pranksters arrive at the seven-day Unitarian Conference?

3. What do the Pranksters learn at a beach in New Orleans?

4. Freewheeling Frank is a:

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

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