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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the Probation Generation?
(a) A generation that believes prison is better than freedom
(b) It's a generation of kids who have been busted for pot possession and are all free on probation
(c) A generation that's on probation until it proves it's worthy of freedome
(d) A generation of kids refusing to do anything that will get them in trouble

2. What does Page discover?
(a) The Federales are willing to take LSD for their silence
(b) Mexicans want to join the Pranksters
(c) A Mexican journalist is watching them
(d) A Mexican undercover officer is watching the Pranksters

3. Who is coming to San Francisco in September 1965?
(a) The Beatles
(b) Malcolm X
(c) The Yardbirds
(d) The Rolling Stones

4. 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) Yes
(c) They don't care because people will try it anyway
(d) No

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

6. What is Black Maria's real name?
(a) Carolyn Hannah
(b) Carol Sayer Bager
(c) Carolyn Johnson
(d) Maria de la Puente

7. What do some Pranksters think of Babbs's leadership style?
(a) They think he's very much like Kesey
(b) They don't like it. It's Army style
(c) They think he's cool
(d) They think he's like the Dalai Lama

8. What causes the Red Tide?
(a) Octopus blood
(b) Whale blood
(c) An explosion of Plankton growth
(d) Too much plant fertilizer

9. Do the Grateful Dead agree to play at this big party?
(a) Yes but they decide not to show up
(b) They're not a band yet
(c) No, they're under contract to play elsewhere
(d) They never receive a formal invitation

10. In what format is this chapter written?
(a) Outline
(b) Shakespearan sonnet
(c) Free verse poetry
(d) Haiku

11. There is no greater calamity than the Red Tide in Manzanillo except:
(a) The Touristas
(b) The Mexican Federales
(c) The American Crazies
(d) The FBI

12. Who came up with the idea for the Trips Festival of 1966?
(a) Kesey
(b) Babbs
(c) Owsley
(d) Steward Brand

13. Where does Babbs move the Acid Test scene?
(a) To Los Angeles
(b) To New York
(c) To Miami
(d) To Santa Barbara

14. Where do the Pranksters agree to make a secret rendez-vous in Mexico?
(a) Mexico City
(b) Mazatlan
(c) Tijuana
(d) Guadalajara

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What confuses the cops about the LSD "crazies"?

2. Despite his odd behavior and paranoia, what does Black Maria think of Kesey?

3. What three events occur in this chapter?

4. Who gives a first-hand account of the Kool-Aid Acid Test?

5. Do the Pranksters believe in anti-war rallies?

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