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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Mountain Girl appear in court?
(a) Very pregnant and in a very short red dress
(b) Slim, not visibly pregnant and in a long, covering dress
(c) Pregnant in a loose-fitting dress
(d) Pregnant in a witch's outfit

2. If Kesey goes back to the U.S. he'll be imprisoned. What do the rest of the group have to look forward to?
(a) The Warehouse and the Gas station
(b) Being taken over by the Leary group
(c) Nothing
(d) Jobs and families

3. What was the cause of Cassady's death?
(a) A bar-room brawl
(b) It's not known
(c) Heart attack
(d) A broken heart

4. Do the Pranksters believe in anti-war rallies?
(a) It depends on the war in question
(b) No
(c) Yes
(d) They are not political and unaware of wars

5. What happens to Kesey on the rooftop of Stewart Brand's building in San Francisco?
(a) He asks Mountain Girl to marry him
(b) He gets arrested for possession of marijuana
(c) He falls off but doesn't get injured
(d) He wears an electric suit

6. What does Black Maria do that annoys everyone else?
(a) She speaks in Spanish
(b) She hangs out with Mexicans on the beach
(c) She sits on the beach with her back to everyone
(d) She only talks to Kesey

7. Do the Pranksters ever see each other again?
(a) Never
(b) They have a strict meeting date every year at Kesey's house
(c) From time to time they visit Kesey
(d) Four times a year, at the end of each quarter

8. According to Wolfe, who in three years time will film an LSD bus trip through England?
(a) The Beatles
(b) Timothy Leary
(c) Babbs
(d) The Rolling Stones

9. Do all of the Pranksters think giving out laced Kool-Aid without telling people is a good idea?
(a) They don't comment on that
(b) They don't care because people will try it anyway
(c) Yes
(d) No

10. How does Cassady drive the Mexican undercover officer away?
(a) He scares him with talk of the devil
(b) He yells at him
(c) He pitches a sledge hammer at him
(d) He punches him

11. Many people in the area think the Pranksters are from:
(a) Germany
(b) Norway
(c) The Netherlands
(d) Japan

12. Who goes to Mexico with Kesey?
(a) Mountain Girl and Jerry Garcia
(b) Boise, Zonker and Jim Fish
(c) Zonker and Babbs
(d) Sandy and Babbs

13. Back in Manzanillo, who sits in jail?
(a) Hagen and Ram Rod
(b) A bunch of Kesey devotees
(c) Mountain Girl and Black Maria
(d) Babbs and Zonker

14. Kesey becomes increasingly paranoid in Mexico because he thinks:
(a) The authorities are after him
(b) Everyone looks like the devil
(c) Black Maria is in love with him
(d) His LSD supply is very low

15. To what does Wolfe compare Kesey and the Acid Test?
(a) Joining the army
(b) The SAT
(c) Entrance exams in the Japanese education system
(d) Spreading the Word of Christianity

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the slogan that the Pranksters use?

2. How does the crowd react to Kesey's remarks?

3. Who prevents the Pranksters from holding Graduation at Winterland?

4. Does the officer come to the party?

5. What stands at the center of the Hall at the Trips Festival?

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