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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Wolfe enters the Warehouse, he mentions a banner that says:

2. What is a rule that Kesey establishes for travel?

3. Where was Kesey born and raised?

4. Where do Kesey and the Pranksters go?

5. What does MDT stand for?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Pranksters view the Beauty Witch's descent into madness?

2. Why do the Prankster feel it's critical not to talk about their experience on the trip?

3. What happens to the Pranksters after people hear more about their big weekend with the Angels?

4. Have the Pranksters broken away from mainstream society?

5. What does Kesey mean when he says that New York is two years behind San Francisco?

6. Kesey compares this time in American History to what other time in ancient history?

7. By the end of the Unitarian conference, the younger Unitarians are so taken with the Pranksters, what do they do?

8. What distracts Wolfe when he is trying to listen to Hassler explain what the Pranksters mean when they talk about the games the straight world is caught up in?

9. How are the Pranksters and the Angels similar? How are they different?

10. After Stark Naked goes mad and has to leave the group, the purpose of the trip and the documentary become clearer. What is that purpose?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Many critics call The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test a "classic." Why do you think this book is called that? Do you agree?

Essay Topic 2

What did you think of Wolfe switching up writing styles throughout the book? Did it throw you off? If so, how? Is his so-called "hysterical realism" a good way to tell this story? Or did you have trouble following the narrative? Why do you think Wolfe wrote this way?

Essay Topic 3

What is fundamentally different between the Pranksters' approach to LSD and the approaches of intellectuals like Aldous Huxley, Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert? What were the Pranksters trying to get at that they thought the others were not? Why was that so important to the Pranksters?

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