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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. Which two characters are having a fight in this chapter?

2. Who does Paul decide to visit?

3. What color hair does the woman in the queue have?

4. Who does the stewardess fetch to talk to Paul?

5. Who is Sala working for in this chapter?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the San Juan News.

2. What does Paul do in Yeaman's house in Chapter 3?

3. Why does Paul decide to go out drinking the night before he flies to Puerto Rico?

4. What does Paul do when he finds out he cannot work?

5. What do Paul and Sala do at the casino?

6. Describe Al's bar.

7. Why has Paul Kemp come to San Juan?

8. Describe the internal problems at the newspaper.

9. Describe how Al built up his business.

10. What does Paul do on his first day at the newspaper?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare life in 1960s Puerto Rico to life in Puerto Rico today. How has it changed? What caused these changes to take place? What would Paul's life be like in Puerto Rico if he went there today?

Essay Topic 2

Compare Paul Kemp's to the person he was when he first arrived in Puerto Rico to the person he is when he leaves.

1) What does Paul hope to achieve in Puerto Rico?

2) What events change Paul's ideas about journalism and life?

3) How is Paul different at the end of the book from the person he was at the beginning of the book?

Essay Topic 3

Though the novel was written in the 1960s, it was not published until 1998. Why do you think Hunter S. Thompson found it so difficult to find a publisher for the novel in the Sixties? What changes do you think he would have to make to the book to get it published in the Sixties? Why do you think the book was more publishable in the late Nineties?

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