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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The people would come to collect Leach's debt by _____________.
(a) Next week.
(b) Tomorrow morning.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Tomorrow at noon.

2. Mr. Screwjack had eaten the last of ______________at the beginning of "Screwjack."
(a) The tuna.
(b) The salmon.
(c) The caviar.
(d) The chicken.

3. In "Screwjack," the narrator pleaded to God, saying, "I am guilty, Lord, but I am also a __________."
(a) Lover.
(b) Martyr.
(c) Heathen.
(d) Worshiper.

4. Who had a twenty-fifth-floor Hilton suite in "Mescalito"?
(a) Richard Nixon.
(b) George Herman.
(c) James Farmer.
(d) Hubert Humphrey.

5. In "Mescalito," Thompson described his drug trip as "a buzzing without noise, high-speed vibrations and more ___________."
(a) Angels.
(b) Brightness.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Tremors.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Thompson write of in Jerusalem in "Mescalito"?

2. Thompson wrote in "Mescalito" while tripping that his eyes felt bigger than____________.

3. When Mr. Screwjack left, the narrator wrote "And then he was gone, with no noise, like some ____ from my other world."

4. How does the writer sleep in the poem which opens "Death of a Poet"?

5. Who had given Thompson the numbers he'd used to place his bets?

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