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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Does Kesey give the Ampex to Sandy?
(a) Yes
(b) No
(c) Yes, but not right away
(d) Kesey doesn't even know what an Ampex is

3. 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

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

5. Who followed Haugen to Mexico?
(a) Some beautiful deb
(b) His sister
(c) His wife
(d) An angry ex-girlfriend

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

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

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

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

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

11. What does Kesey plan to do to wreck the psychedelic movement once and for all?
(a) Hold an Acid Test Graduation on Halloween
(b) Hold a drug-free party for the nation
(c) Join the Grateful Dead
(d) Denounce his past completely

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

13. What does Mountain Girl do after her trial?
(a) She joins some Pranksters and heads for Mexico
(b) She goes back to Poughkeepsie and has her baby
(c) She hooks up with Jerry Garcia
(d) She disappears to have her baby alone

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What three events occur in this chapter?

2. Where is the bus?

3. How does Kesey flee the Mexican authorities?

4. What sign do the Pranksters put up at La Honda?

5. There is no greater calamity than the Red Tide in Manzanillo except:

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