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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sandy want the Ampex for?
(a) To raise money for his medical bills
(b) He wants to use it for another project
(c) He doesn't like people using his equipment without him around
(d) He wants to start a recording studio

2. Why are people disappointed in Kesey after the trial?
(a) They think he's going to work for the government
(b) They think he sold out to avoid jail
(c) They discover he was a fraud
(d) They thought he was going to testify using a harmonica

3. Why is it necessary for Mountain Girl to go to Poughkeepsie?
(a) She is accepted to Vassar College
(b) She needs to take care of her parents
(c) She's pregnant and can't be around the Pranksters
(d) She suddenly misses her hometown

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

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

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

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

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

9. How does the crowd react to Kesey's remarks?
(a) Muted
(b) Wolfe describes them as ecstactic
(c) Wolfe describes them as going into a slump
(d) They're electrified

10. Who do the Pranksters suspect is behind their bust on the way to Guadalajara?
(a) The father of Hagen's girlfriend
(b) They have no idea
(c) Kesey's father
(d) Fayes father

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

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

13. What confuses the cops about the LSD "crazies"?
(a) They're so thin
(b) They look so healthy for people doing so much drugs
(c) They look so unhealthy, it's a miracle they're alive
(d) They look like zombies

14. Who invites Kesey to speak at an anti-war rally at Berkeley?
(a) The U.S. President
(b) The Vietnam Day Committee
(c) The Trustees of Berkeley University
(d) Some obscure group whose name is never revealed

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Wolfe, who in three years time will film an LSD bus trip through England?

2. What does Mountain Girl do after her trial?

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

4. What is the slogan that the Pranksters use?

5. What do some Pranksters think of Babbs's leadership style?

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