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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Screwjack.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Thompson wrote that Leach was a junkie for _____________.
(a) Mass hysteria.
(b) Women.
(c) Heroin.
(d) Gambling.

2. Leach told Thompson in "Death of a Poet" that he had changed his bet, gotten drunk, and ________________.
(a) Doubled up.
(b) Sold his car.
(c) Canceled the bet.
(d) Tripled the bet.

3. In the closing of his letter, whom did the narrator ask the Lord to keep off his back?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Doctors.
(c) Auditors.
(d) Lawyers.

4. At the Luau, who could remember when Farmer was a radical?
(a) Humphrey.
(b) McGarr.
(c) Schorr.
(d) Nixon.

5. With whom did Thompson write of sitting on the Strip, talking to off-duty hookers in "Mescalito"?
(a) Cleveland.
(b) Lionel.
(c) James.
(d) Arnold.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Leach tell Thompson he was about to do when he arrived?

2. The opening paragraph of "Screwjack" is signed off by ____________.

3. What does the writer do in the tunnel in the poem which opens "Death of a Poet"?

4. The clerk at the liquor store asked Thompson, "Aren't you the guy who did that ______ thing?"

5. Whom did Thompson feel like while conversing with the flower children in "Mescalito"?

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