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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. What kind of art does the girl with the attorney in the Hotel Flamingo room do?

2. What do Thompson and the attorney find out when they return to their suite after dealing with the girl the attorney brought to the Hotel Flamingo?

3. What does the attorney do to the Hotel Flamingo maid in Part II, Chapter 11?

4. Over what do Thompson and the attorney haggle with the waitress in Part II, Chapter 9?

5. What does Thompson decide to do after talking with the Hotel Flamingo desk clerk in Part II, Chapter 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Thompson find when he enters his hotel room in Part II, Chapter 3?

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

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

4. Why does Bruce Innes call Thompson, and what does Thompson do after he talks to Bruce? What is the outcome of the situation?

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

6. How does Thompson handle the situation with the Hotel Flamingo desk clerk in Part II, Chapter 4?

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

8. What does Thompson do with the Red Shark in the beginning of Part II, and what does he do right after that?

9. What happened in Aspen when Bruce was singing there one time?

10. What does the waitress at the taco stand in Part II, Chapter 9 believe when Thompson and the attorney tell her they are looking for the American Dream, and what does the cook say to them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

One of the recurring images throughout Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is violence. This violence is drug related, or part of the Vietnam War, or the conflict between the protestors and police. Much of the violence cited in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas is in the form of Thompson reading newspapers.

Discuss what the author is attempting to say about America and violence. Use examples from the text to support your answer.

Essay Topic 2

People are an integral and important part of almost all literature. Discuss the following:

Compare/contrast the personalities and beliefs of Thompson and the attorney. How are they similar? How are they different? Is there a flaw in each of their personalities? What are their strengths and weaknesses? Are they people with or without any redeeming qualities? Be specific and give examples.

Essay Topic 3

There are numerous references that Thompson makes to the American Dream. Two are: Thompson begins a fairly lucid explanation for their trip through the desert. He and his attorney, Thompson says, are in search of the American Dream. Thompson and his attorney sit in the bar of the Circus-Circus, the attorney begins to complain of a drug-induced paranoia that is slowly taking hold of him. Thompson attempts to combat this by telling his companion that they are sitting in the "vortex of the American dream."

Define the American Dream according to Thompson. What does it encompass? Why is he looking for it? Is it real? Do you think he finds it by the end of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas? Use at least three examples of places in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas when Thompson mentions the American Dream.

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