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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Kesey annoy many of the people who visit La Honda?
(a) He never turns the heat on
(b) He never says anything, just lets things happen
(c) He never has anything for them to eat
(d) He is very controlling

2. Where does the author Tom Wolfe first meet Kesey?
(a) In the psych ward
(b) In a library
(c) In a coffee shop
(d) In prison

3. When Kesey returns to SF from jail, what does he see and describes to Wolfe?
(a) He sees a city flourishing with life and wealth
(b) He sees a city that looks like New York
(c) He describes how San Francisco has slipped into sleaze and poverty
(d) He sees a city that looks more and more like Los Angeles

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

5. 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.

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

7. What do the Pranksters call their trip to Millbrook?
(a) The Millbrook Test
(b) The Leary Trip
(c) The Crypt Trip
(d) The New York finale

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

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

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

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

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

13. Where do the Pranksters go to meet Leary?
(a) Poughkeepsie, New York
(b) Ithica, New York
(c) Queens, New York
(d) Millbrook, New York

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a rule that Kesey establishes for travel?

2. What do the Pranksters introduce to the Angels?

3. How does Mountain Girl change as she spends more time as a Prankster?

4. What do the Pransters call Kesey?

5. What does Kesey discover at Stanford that changes the course of his life?

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