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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. Kesey decides he wants to turn the world onto LSD through:
2. What makes the Jug Band freeze?
3. What does Sandy want the Ampex for?
4. Where do the Pranksters agree to make a secret rendez-vous in Mexico?
5. Who prevents the Pranksters from holding Graduation at Winterland?
Short Essay Questions
1. Do you think the Vietnam Day Committee understood what they were doing by inviting Kesey to speak?
2. Is this a happy ending?
3. What is it about the Red Tide that is so bothersome?
4. 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?
5. Following the success of the Trips Festival, what does Bill Graham do?
6. What did you think of Kesey's re-entry into the U.S.?
7. Why do you think Wolfe wrote this chapter in this free-verse style?
8. Is it ironic that Kesey goes to the U.S. Consulate, isn't ironic and even gets money from one of the staff?
9. 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?
10. What were your thoughts about the Pranksters giving laced Kool-Aid to people without telling them what was in the drink?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Why does Kesey oppose anti-war rallies? Explain how he demonstrates this point of view when he appears at a rally at Berkeley.
Essay Topic 2
In the chapter "Cloud," we see the business side of LSD. How are Owsley and the Mad Chemist different? Is Owsley a visionary? Or is he just a shrewd businessman?
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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