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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 Sandy want the Ampex for?
(a) To raise money for his medical bills
(b) He doesn't like people using his equipment without him around
(c) He wants to start a recording studio
(d) He wants to use it for another project

2. There is no greater calamity than the Red Tide in Manzanillo except:
(a) The FBI
(b) The Mexican Federales
(c) The American Crazies
(d) The Touristas

3. Where is the bus?
(a) In a museum
(b) Parked outside a bank in downtown San Francisco
(c) In a junkyard
(d) Parked outside Kesey's Oregon house

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

5. Why is it necessary for Mountain Girl to go to Poughkeepsie?
(a) She needs to take care of her parents
(b) She's pregnant and can't be around the Pranksters
(c) She suddenly misses her hometown
(d) She is accepted to Vassar College

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes the Jug Band freeze?

2. Why do people go to Kesey's property after the Concert?

3. What has San Francisco State University become?

4. How does one pass the acid test?

5. Who came up with the idea for the Trips Festival of 1966?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is it about the Red Tide that is so bothersome?

2. Wolfe writes, "To Kesey, it was a hopeless flea-bitten desert he was fleeing into." What are some of the other descriptions Kesey uses to portray Mexico?

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

4. Is it ironic that Kesey goes to the U.S. Consulate, isn't ironic and even gets money from one of the staff?

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

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

7. Where is Kesey and what is he doing at the end of this story?

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

9. Following the success of the Trips Festival, what does Bill Graham do?

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

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