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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 Probation Generation?
(a) A generation that believes prison is better than freedom
(b) A generation of kids refusing to do anything that will get them in trouble
(c) It's a generation of kids who have been busted for pot possession and are all free on probation
(d) A generation that's on probation until it proves it's worthy of freedome

2. Kesey decides to return to the U.S. through what entry point?
(a) Long Beach
(b) New York
(c) Brownsville, Texas
(d) Tijuana

3. How much time does Kesey serve?
(a) Five weeks in solitary confinement
(b) Five months under house arrest
(c) Five months on a working farm
(d) Six months in a maximum security prison

4. What does Black Maria do that annoys everyone else?
(a) She speaks in Spanish
(b) She only talks to Kesey
(c) She hangs out with Mexicans on the beach
(d) She sits on the beach with her back to everyone

5. How does Kesey avoid getting arrested on his way to the university test?
(a) He dresses in drag
(b) He dresses like a space pilot
(c) He gets the Hell's Angels to escort him
(d) He wears a very long wig

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Who prevents the Pranksters from holding Graduation at Winterland?

4. What has San Francisco State University become?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. Once again we see how Kesey controls the group. Describe how he does it this time at Muir Beach?

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

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

7. 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?

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

9. 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?

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

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