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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. Where does Kesey get money?
(a) He works for a few days in a cafe
(b) The Chinese Consulate
(c) He finds it on the streets
(d) The American Consulate

2. Where does Kesey usually obtain his LSD?
(a) From the Leary Group
(b) He makes it himself
(c) From a source in Thailand
(d) From the Mad Chemist

3. According to Wolfe, who in three years time will film an LSD bus trip through England?
(a) Timothy Leary
(b) Babbs
(c) The Rolling Stones
(d) The Beatles

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

5. Where is Neal Cassady's body found?
(a) Beside a railroad track in Mexico
(b) In an alley and Haight-Ashbury
(c) Next to the Gas Station
(d) Next to the Warehouse

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Kesey explain his philosophy about the war?

2. Why are people disappointed in Kesey after the trial?

3. How does Wolfe describe Haight-Ashbury at this point in the story?

4. Who goes to Mexico with Kesey?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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