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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 is "Tootling the Multitudes?"
(a) Telling the common folk that they were pretty cool
(b) To play people like they were music
(c) Singing Broadway songs to people who can't afford show tickets
(d) Serenading unsuspecting women

2. What is Unauthorized Acid?
(a) Foreign LSD
(b) Acid that hasn't passed FDA standards
(c) An amount not approved by the government
(d) A big gulp, not the measured cup of LSD-laced orange juice

3. Kesey says he wants everyone to do their thing and be Pranksters, but he also wants them to be:
(a) Crazy
(b) Competitive
(c) Charming
(d) Competetent

4. What drink is in the bus fridge and laced with LSD?
(a) Orange Juice
(b) Vodka
(c) Water
(d) Cranberry Juice

5. 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 doesn't like the climate
(d) He misses California and feels homesick

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How do the young women at the conference react to Kesey?

3. What do the Pranksters learn at a beach in New Orleans?

4. Is the intersubjectivity for the group the same on the bus and off the bus?

5. What does Wolfe compare Kesey and the Pranksters to?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. 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?

3. Why do the Prankster feel it's critical not to talk about their experience on the trip?

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

5. Describe Wolfe's initial meeting with Kesey.

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

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

8. What is the significance of the Bladder Totem?

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

10. Why does Hartweg have such a hard time understanding what the Pranksters have filmed?

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