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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Kesey do on stage that makes the Unitarians gasp?
(a) He uses the flag like a towel to wipe his face
(b) He tears the American flag apart and gives pieces to the audience
(c) He burns the flag
(d) He steps on the American flag and grinds it into the floor.

2. What do the Pransters call Kesey?
(a) President
(b) His holiness
(c) CEO
(d) Chief

3. Why does Kesey decide to leave Millbrook?
(a) There's no parking space for the bus
(b) He gets a cool reception and finds he has little in common with the Leary Group
(c) He misses California and feels homesick
(d) He doesn't like the climate

4. What does Norman Hartweg want to do with the Pranksters' film?
(a) Keep it in a safe place for them
(b) Send it to Norman Polanski to make a film
(c) Edit it and write about it
(d) Burn it so that it can't be used as evidence in a trial

5. Why does Kesey want to document the road trip?
(a) He wants to become a filmmaker
(b) He worries that his memory is fading
(c) He wants to capture the amazing things that will happen while on drugs
(d) He wants evidence in case he has to go to court someday

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Kesey go to do graduate work?

2. What is the Bladder Totem?

3. What do people start to call Kesey's La Honda home?

4. How does Zonker save himself in the water when he's surrounded by suspicious black men?

5. What is the Leary group's view of the Pranksters?

Short Essay Questions

1. Kesey moves his family and the Pranksters out to La Honda, California. Describe the new home.

2. Why do outsiders want to get in with the Pranksters?

3. How do the Pranksters view the Beauty Witch's descent into madness?

4. After everything Wolfe had heard and researched about Kesey, when he finally meets him in jail, what does Kesey stress the most?

5. What distracts Wolfe when he is trying to listen to Hassler explain what the Pranksters mean when they talk about the games the straight world is caught up in?

6. Have the Pranksters broken away from mainstream society?

7. By the end of the Unitarian conference, the younger Unitarians are so taken with the Pranksters, what do they do?

8. At this point, are the Pranksters losing sight of their vision? Why or why not?

9. Why does Kesey refuse to tell people that they should STOP taking LSD?

10. What starts to annoy the other Pranksters about Kesey at this point in their story?

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