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

2. At trial, what does the judge conclude about Kesey?
(a) He's not a dragon but he is a wizard
(b) He's no dragon, just a jackass
(c) He's a dragon and very dangerous
(d) That Kesey will change the world

3. Who did Black Maria originally follow to Mexico?
(a) Kesey
(b) Mountain Girl
(c) Jim Fish
(d) Zonk

4. Who gives a first-hand account of the Kool-Aid Acid Test?
(a) Clair Brush, a journalist
(b) Clarence Brush, a novelist
(c) The Blair Witch guy
(d) Clair Danes, an actress

5. Why is Kesey planning to go to Mexico?
(a) He's tired of living in his own country
(b) He's always been interested in Mexican culture
(c) He thinks he can start a Mexican Pranksters
(d) To escape incarceration

Short Answer Questions

1. What causes the Red Tide?

2. Who is coming to San Francisco in September 1965?

3. What is the Probation Generation?

4. Kesey becomes increasingly paranoid in Mexico because he thinks:

5. Kesey moves with his family to:

Short Essay Questions

1. In reading this chapter, what did you think of Kesey's attempt at having a final graduation?

2. When Kesey returns to California, he's in a strange state of mind. He says he's in the cops movie now. Does Kesey believe he's going to be captured?

3. Why do you think the Mexicans greet the Pranksters with "Diablo!"

4. After Zonker receives a telegram informing the group that the suicide note scheme didn't work, who spreads news that Kesey is in Mexico?

5. Is this a happy ending?

6. Do you think the Vietnam Day Committee understood what they were doing by inviting Kesey to speak?

7. Is it ironic that Kesey wants to leave the Beatles concert before the crowd gets out of control?

8. What were your thoughts about the Pranksters giving laced Kool-Aid to people without telling them what was in the drink?

9. Why do you think Kesey denies Sandy the Ampex?

10. Why did the Pranksters and their followers fall apart after Kesey's trial?

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