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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. Why does the attorney pull the car off the road in Part 1, Chapter 3?
(a) He pretends the car is broken.
(b) He is getting sleepy.
(c) He is pretending to have a heart attack.
(d) He wants something to eat.

2. Why does Thompson begin driving faster after the lawyer pulls out a gun in Part 1?
(a) Thompson is hoping to scare his lawyer.
(b) Thompson wants to see how fast the car can go.
(c) The lawyer said he is going to shoot Thompson.
(d) Thompson wants to arrive at the hotel before he is too messed up to drive.

3. When are Thompson and the lawyer at the track at the beginning of Part 1, Chapter 5?
(a) In the evening.
(b) At noon.
(c) At sunrise.
(d) In late afternoon.

4. Where did Thompson have his first hits of LSD?
(a) In his brother-in-law’s house.
(b) In Berkeley, attending college.
(c) In the Cow Palace.
(d) In the Fillimore.

5. Why does Thompson decide in Part 1, Chapter 11 that he has two more hours before the law begins to look for him?
(a) No one does anything early in the morning in Las Vegas, even law officers.
(b) Check-out time at the hotel is not until noon.
(c) He can be out of Nevada in two hours.
(d) The maids won’t clean his suite for another two hours.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the police officer in Part 1, Chapter 12 tell Thompson to do?

2. What is in the car Thompson has in Part 1, Chapter 9?

3. What does Thompson briefly think to do when the hitchhiker talks about the car?

4. What does Thompson think is the way Lacerda returned to L.A.?

5. How many years did Ali get sentenced to prison, according to a newspaper Thompson reads while waiting for his car in Chapter 1, Chapter 9?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is waiting for Thompson at Hotel Flamingo in Part I, Chapter 10, and what does Thompson decide to do about the telegram he receives?

2. What does Thompson realize after the attorney pulls a gun on him in Part I, Chapter 3?

3. What does Thompson do after the attorney threatens people in the elevator in Part I, Chapter 7, and why does the attorney feel so badly?

4. What does Thompson tell the lawyer they must do when they get to their room in the first hotel they stay at in Las Vegas?

5. Why is Hunter Thompson going to Las Vegas at the beginning of the book?

6. What do Thompson and his attorney do right before they leave for Las Vegas?

7. Why does Thompson decide to leave Las Vegas in Part I, Chapter 9?

8. What was the result of Thompson’s encounter with the person in his story about the effects of long-term drug use?

9. What does Thompson decide to do when the attorney goes into a panic in the Circus-Circus?

10. How does Thompson get started on his journey to Las Vegas?

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