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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What three events occur in this chapter?
(a) Mountain Girl starts her own group, Sandy starts his and Kesey makes no changes
(b) Keseys sells the bus, heads for Mexico and starts a cult there
(c) Mountain Girl flees to Mexico, Kesey turns himself over, and Sandy writes a tell-all book
(d) Mountain Girl goes to New York, Sandy returns to New York and Kesey's heading for Mexico

2. Who 'fails' the acid test?
(a) Owsley, the famous LSD maker
(b) Freewheeling Frank
(c) Kesey
(d) Babbs

3. While briefly in jail, Kesey meets a kid with:
(a) Magic Fingernails
(b) A tail
(c) Magical powers
(d) A really bad temper

4. 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

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

6. Why do people go to Kesey's property after the Concert?
(a) They want to witness a John Lennon-Ken Kesey meeting
(b) Rumors circulate that the Beatles will be there after their concert
(c) Rumors circulate that the Pranksters are giving away LSD
(d) They have nowhere else to go

7. What identity does Kesey take to reenter the U.S.?
(a) A sober cowboy on foot
(b) A drunken farmers on a horse
(c) A Cowboy football player
(d) A drunken cowboy singer on a horse

8. Who gives a first-hand account of the Kool-Aid Acid Test?
(a) Clair Brush, a journalist
(b) Clarence Brush, a novelist
(c) Clair Danes, an actress
(d) The Blair Witch guy

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

10. To whom does Kesey compare Paul Jacobs, one of the previous speakers?
(a) General Tojo
(b) Mussolini
(c) Hitler
(d) Ron L. Hubbard

11. Kesey moves with his family to:
(a) Oregon
(b) Canada
(c) Mexico
(d) Colorado

12. What has San Francisco State University become?
(a) The Harvard of the west
(b) The pot capital of the west
(c) The Yale of the west
(d) The acid heads' true universitas

13. What makes the Jug Band freeze?
(a) The sight of Kesey and his harmonica
(b) A combination of tear gas and really cold weather
(c) A combination of tear gas and fear
(d) A combination of tear gas and drugs they've taken

14. Where is the bus?
(a) Parked outside Kesey's Oregon house
(b) In a museum
(c) In a junkyard
(d) Parked outside a bank in downtown San Francisco

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Kesey planning to go to Mexico?

2. How does Kesey avoid getting arrested on his way to the university test?

3. Who takes over leadership while Kesey's in Mexico?

4. What was the cause of Cassady's death?

5. How does Cassady drive the Mexican undercover officer away?

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