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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. What does Owsley make?
(a) DMT
(b) LSD
(c) Film editing equipment
(d) Sound systems

4. 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 drunken cowboy singer on a horse
(d) A Cowboy football player

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

6. Did Clair know what she was drinking when she went to the warehouse?
(a) She had an idea but ignored it
(b) Yes, but she didn't care
(c) No
(d) She can't remember

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

8. Kesey decides he wants to turn the world onto LSD through:
(a) The Acid Test
(b) A bus tour
(c) How-to Books
(d) A weekly newspaper column

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

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

11. How much does the Trips Festival gross in three days?
(a) One hundred twenty five thousand dollars
(b) Twelve dollars and five cents
(c) Twelve thousand five hundred dollars
(d) Twelve hundred and five dollars

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

13. 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) No
(d) Yes

14. How does Kesey explain his philosophy about the war?
(a) He plays
(b) He plays
(c) He stands on the stage and says nothing
(d) He says the only way to understand it is to trip on a lot of acid

15. Where does Kesey get money?
(a) The American Consulate
(b) He finds it on the streets
(c) The Chinese Consulate
(d) He works for a few days in a cafe

Short Answer Questions

1. Who invites Kesey to speak at an anti-war rally at Berkeley?

2. What happens to Kesey on the rooftop of Stewart Brand's building in San Francisco?

3. Do the Pranksters ever see each other again?

4. What does Mountain Girl do after her trial?

5. What is Black Maria's real name?

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