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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. How does Thompson fend off the lawyer in their hotel room in Part 1, Chapter 7?

2. What does Thompson say they must get before they can leave for Las Vegas?

3. What did the person Thompson mentioned when talking about the long term effects of drug use do when Thompson asked him/her a question?

4. What is the bartender wearing at the bar outside Las Vegas where Thompson has stopped at the end of Part 1?

5. Where were Thompson and the lawyer when Thompson’s employer calls them in Part 1, Chapter 1?

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. How is Thompson trying to leave Las Vegas at the beginning of Part I, Chapter 11?

3. What worries Thompson about his and his attorney’s behavior in front of the hitchhiker, and what does Thompson decide to do about it?

4. What does Thompson’s lawyer ask him to do when Thompson finds him in the bathtub? What is the result of that request?

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

6. Where is Thompson’s lawyer when Thompson decides to leave Las Vegas in Part I, Chapter 9, and what does the lawyer leave with Thompson?

7. What seems to change Thompson’s plans to leave Las Vegas in Part I?

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

9. Where does Thompson and his lawyer go for a show after leaving the Mint 400, and what happens there? What do they do after that?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Titles often play a vital role in making a person decide to read a particular book. Discuss the following:

Fully explain why you think Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is titled as such. Do you think it is the best title for the book? Why or why not? Where is fear seen in the book? Is anything loathed by the main individuals? Why might loathing be a word in the title?

Essay Topic 2

The two automobiles that Thompson and the attorney use are a red Chevy convertible and a white Cadillac convertible. The two men even name the cars.

Compare symbolism of the great red shark and the white whale. What do they represent? How do they tie in with Thompson’s view of the American culture? If the two were in a life and death struggle, who would win, the red shark or the white whale? Why? Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 3

Thompson and his attorney consume massive amounts of drugs in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

Discuss the destruction of property, the violence, immoral behavior and inability to behave in a socially acceptable manner due to the drugs the two men use. Use examples from the text to support your answer.19. Discuss the following:

Do you think most people want a happy ending in a book? Do you think Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas would qualify as a book with a happy ending? Why or why not? What do you think are three reasons to read fictionalized memoir and do you think Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas fulfills these three reasons? Why or why not?

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