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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Kesey and his cohorts wear?
(a) White painter's overalls
(b) Black overalls
(c) Colorful aprons
(d) Overalls with pieces of the American flag sewn into them

2. What does Wolfe find distracting about Hassler?
(a) He's incredibly handsome
(b) He twitches his eyes constantly without a reason
(c) He is completely silent
(d) His plastic toothbrush case in his shirt pocket

3. What does Kenneth Babbs introduce to the new Kesey colony?
(a) Pranks
(b) Asian novels
(c) Fine cuisine
(d) Jokes

4. What is the cause of Sandy's disturbing hallucinations?
(a) The LSD that the Learyites used
(b) Some cheap LSD he bought in New York
(c) Thoughts of the DMZ in Korea
(d) DMT, which he took at Millbrook

5. Where does Babbs place his writing in the warehouse?
(a) In a box in the middle of the floor.
(b) Under a bed
(c) In Kesey's belongings
(d) In the closet

6. Where do the Merry Pranksters live?
(a) In a factory
(b) In a warehouse
(c) In a Victorian style house
(d) In a townhouse

7. Where does the author Tom Wolfe first meet Kesey?
(a) In a coffee shop
(b) In the psych ward
(c) In a library
(d) In prison

8. How does Mountain Girl change as she spends more time as a Prankster?
(a) She gains a lot of weight, has trouble walking and sleeping
(b) Yes. Mountain Girl, for example, loses weight, becomes very beautiful, and gains confidence expressing herself
(c) She becomes less interested in expressing herself and eventually becomes mute
(d) She reads more books and writes a few novels

9. Who is Sonny Barger?
(a) Sandy's cousin
(b) A novelist and motorcycle enthusiast
(c) A cousin of Sonny Bono the singer
(d) The president of the Hell's Angels, famous from the Hunter S. Thompson book

10. What does Wolfe compare to the Pranksters?
(a) A polygamist cult
(b) A massive psychological encounter group
(c) The Federal government
(d) The Army

11. What famous actress does Doris Delay resemble?
(a) Doris Day
(b) Dorothy Dandridge
(c) Doris Roberts
(d) Delores Johnson

12. After doing a lot of talking, Kesey emerges from the bus with what on his face?
(a) Women's makeup
(b) Day Glo paint
(c) A huge swath of adhesive tape over his mouth
(d) The sign of the cross over his forehead

13. Kesey says he wants everyone to do their thing and be Pranksters, but he also wants them to be:
(a) Charming
(b) Crazy
(c) Competetent
(d) Competitive

14. Where do the Pranksters go to meet Leary?
(a) Millbrook, New York
(b) Ithica, New York
(c) Poughkeepsie, New York
(d) Queens, New York

15. As the conference progresses, what becomes more interesting to Kesey?
(a) The phenomenon of Control
(b) The older Unitarians
(c) The sacraments
(d) The need for religion in his life

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Cassady do when driving over the Blue Ridge Mountains?

2. What do the Pranksters do ahead of the arrival of the police?

3. What does MDT stand for?

4. What is the difference between the drug culture of the early '60s and the late '60s?

5. What do the Pranksters introduce to the Angels?

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