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

2. How does Zonker save himself in the water when he's surrounded by suspicious black men?
(a) He offers them free drugs
(b) He offers to give them all rides home
(c) He swims quickly to shore without saying a thing
(d) He smiles a long drug-induced smile that wins them over

3. What is Wolfe's reaction to Babb's writing?
(a) Amused, not too serious
(b) Tickled to death
(c) Disgusted
(d) Impressed

4. Do outsiders have any interest in joining the Pranksters?
(a) No, absolutely not
(b) No one knows because it's against the law to talk about them
(c) On a very conditional basis
(d) Yes

5. How does Mountain Girl change as she spends more time as a Prankster?
(a) She becomes less interested in expressing herself and eventually becomes mute
(b) She gains a lot of weight, has trouble walking and sleeping
(c) She reads more books and writes a few novels
(d) Yes. Mountain Girl, for example, loses weight, becomes very beautiful, and gains confidence expressing herself

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Kesey want to document the road trip?

2. What do the Pranksters do ahead of the arrival of the police?

3. Where do Kesey and the Pranksters go?

4. Why does Kesey annoy many of the people who visit La Honda?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Describe the state of mind and general condition that leads Sandy to take the Unauthorized Acid:

4. Describe Wolfe's initial meeting with Kesey.

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. What does Kesey mean when he says that New York is two years behind San Francisco?

7. After the Conference, someone describes Kesey as the "Prophet King." What are Kesey and his group being compared to? Is it a valid comparison?

8. What do the Pranksters believe about people living the 'straight life?'

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

10. What was the original plan for the road trip to the east coast?

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