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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 was the person in jail , according to the newspaper article Thompson read in the pharmacy parking lot?
(a) He had been arrested for reckless driving.
(b) He was having a drug overdose.
(c) He was a draft dodger.
(d) He had robbed a store.

2. Where are Thompson and the attorney at the beginning of Part II, Chapter 6?
(a) In the back of an auditorium.
(b) At the police station.
(c) In the white whale.
(d) At the airport.

3. What does Thompson decide to do after talking with the Hotel Flamingo desk clerk in Part II, Chapter 4?
(a) Go to another hotel.
(b) Attend the seminar that night.
(c) Leave Las Vegas.
(d) Get the attorney to leave Las Vegas.

4. Who, in Part II, Chapter 9, claims the manuscript has become indecipherable?
(a) The attorney.
(b) The publisher.
(c) The editor.
(d) The literary critic.

5. What does the attorney advise Thompson to do in Part II, Chapter 5?
(a) Take a hit of LSD.
(b) Smoke some marijuana.
(c) Take a hit of adrenochrome.
(d) Swallow two mescalines.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the waitress in Part II, Chapter 8 tell Thompson and the attorney to leave the diner?

2. What does Thompson tell the Hotel Flamingo desk clerk about Lucy?

3. For what was Thompson’s friend in Part II, Chapter 10 jailed?

4. What does the Hotel Flamingo maid do when Thompson and the attorney are done with her in Part II, Chapter 11?

5. What do Thompson and the attorney ultimately do with the girl the attorney brought with him to the Hotel Flamingo?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Part II, Chapter 8, what happens when Thompson is driving the White Whale around Las Vegas with the attorney?

2. Where does Thompson and the attorney sit at the first day of the convention and what are they each wearing?

3. How long is the first session of the convention in Part II, Chapter 7, and how does Thompson feel about being there?

4. Why does Thompson stop east of Baker and what does he get at a pharmacy?

5. How does Thompson’s young friend get out of his trouble, as described in Part II, Chapter 10?

6. What happens when Thompson is checking into the Hotel Flamingo in Part II, Chapter 2?

7. What happened to a friend of Thompson’s in Las Vegas, as described in Part II, Chapter 10?

8. Why does the Hotel Flamingo desk clerk accost Thompson and the attorney when they return to the hotel in Part II, Chapter 4?

9. What does Thompson read in the pharmacy parking lot?

10. How does Thompson feel when he returns to their destroyed suite at the Hotel Flamingo in Part II, Chapter 11?

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