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

2. 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 smiles a long drug-induced smile that wins them over
(d) He offers them free drugs

3. Why does Kesey want to document the road trip?
(a) He wants evidence in case he has to go to court someday
(b) He wants to capture the amazing things that will happen while on drugs
(c) He wants to become a filmmaker
(d) He worries that his memory is fading

4. How long does the Pranksters-Angels party last?
(a) Two days
(b) Two hours
(c) Two months
(d) Two weeks

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

6. What do the Pranksters learn at a beach in New Orleans?
(a) That it's segregated and for Blacks only
(b) They will have to make the rest of the trip on foot
(c) That they thought they were in Alabama
(d) It's polluted and will make them sick

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

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

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

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

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

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

13. Where have Kesey and the Pranksters moved to?
(a) Santa Barbara, California
(b) Seattle, Washington
(c) La Jolla, California
(d) La Honda, California

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where does Babbs place his writing in the warehouse?

3. What are some of the regular features of life at La Honda?

4. Why does Kesey decide to leave Millbrook?

5. What do Kesey and his cohorts wear?

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