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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 the slogan that the Pranksters use?
(a) Are you experienced?
(b) We're doing it. Everyone should.
(c) Can you pass the acid test?
(d) It's not as bad as you think.

2. Who 'fails' the acid test?
(a) Babbs
(b) Owsley, the famous LSD maker
(c) Kesey
(d) Freewheeling Frank

3. 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

4. Back in Manzanillo, who sits in jail?
(a) Babbs and Zonker
(b) Mountain Girl and Black Maria
(c) A bunch of Kesey devotees
(d) Hagen and Ram Rod

5. Who goes to Mexico with Kesey?
(a) Mountain Girl and Jerry Garcia
(b) Zonker and Babbs
(c) Sandy and Babbs
(d) Boise, Zonker and Jim Fish

Short Answer Questions

1. To whom does Kesey compare Paul Jacobs, one of the previous speakers?

2. What is Richard Alpert's concern about the Pranksters?

3. According to Wolfe, who in three years time will film an LSD bus trip through England?

4. Where do the Pranksters get their money from?

5. Why is Kesey planning to go to Mexico?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Is this a happy ending?

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

5. Did Kesey seem to know his fate all along his LSD-Pranksters journey?

6. What is Kesey's response to an imminent arrest?

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

8. Why do you think Wolfe wrote this chapter in this free-verse style?

9. What happens to Kesey during the electrical storm on the beach?

10. What did you think of Kesey's re-entry into the U.S.?

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