View a FREE sample

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

2. Kesey moves with his family to:
(a) Canada
(b) Mexico
(c) Oregon
(d) Colorado

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

4. Kesey becomes increasingly paranoid in Mexico because he thinks:
(a) Black Maria is in love with him
(b) The authorities are after him
(c) His LSD supply is very low
(d) Everyone looks like the devil

5. Who followed Haugen to Mexico?
(a) Some beautiful deb
(b) His sister
(c) His wife
(d) An angry ex-girlfriend

Short Answer Questions

1. Do the Grateful Dead agree to play at this big party?

2. What is Black Maria's real name?

3. What was the cause of Cassady's death?

4. What do Kesey, Zonker and Hagen drive to the meeting point?

5. At trial, what does the judge conclude about Kesey?

Short Essay Questions

1. Do you think that Kesey went on his bizarre rant on stage because the Pranksters arrived late to the the anti-war rally with little reception?

2. How does Mountain Girl manage to get off with just a fine for the marijuana charges against her?

3. Is it ironic that Owsley, who makes LSD, has a such a bad trip that he 'fails' the acid test?

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. For all the things that Kesey hates about Mexico, at this point he discovers a very different side of the country and its people. What does he discover?

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

7. What did you think when Kesey returns to La Honda after the concert and finds up to 400 people there?

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

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

10. Why do you think Babbs moves the acid tests to Los Angeles?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 841 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample