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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 do the Pranksters introduce to the Angels?
(a) Orange Juice and Kool-Aid
(b) LSD and DMT
(c) Guns and spears
(d) Morphine and Amphetamines

2. What do the Pranksters do ahead of the arrival of the police?
(a) They put up large signs that mock the police to let them know they're coming
(b) They burn the house down
(c) They empty the house and flee into the woods
(d) They change their appearance completely

3. What happens when the Pranksters arrive at the seven-day Unitarian Conference?
(a) They offend everyone
(b) They discover they like organized religion
(c) They are popular with everyone
(d) They offend the older Unitarians and intrigue the younger ones.

4. What are some of the regular features of life at La Honda?
(a) Yoga classes three times a week to stay healthy
(b) LSD-laced prayer sessions at sunrise
(c) Day Glo paint on everything, Friday night dinners
(d) Arm wrestling on Wednesdays

5. Does Kesey get to meet Leary?
(a) Yes, and they get along well
(b) They pass each other in the hallway but can't talk
(c) No
(d) In a spiritual way, yes

Short Answer Questions

1. What drink is in the bus fridge and laced with LSD?

2. What does Kesey say happened to him in Mexico?

3. What is Wolfe's reaction to Babb's writing?

4. What is the Bladder Totem?

5. Sandy believes that Kesey is most interested in the forest as:

Short Essay Questions

1. How is Kesey's second novel, Sometimes a Great Nation, received? How does Kesey react to the reviews?

2. Kesey compares this time in American History to what other time in ancient history?

3. How are the Pranksters and the Angels similar? How are they different?

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 is the significance of the Bladder Totem?

6. What happens to Perry Lane when Kesey and his family return following the publication of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest?"

7. After Stark Naked goes mad and has to leave the group, the purpose of the trip and the documentary become clearer. What is that purpose?

8. Why do the Leary followers dislike the Pranksters?

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

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

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