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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who ordered a search of Puerto Vallarta after reports surfaced of Kesey's whereabouts?
(a) Chief Arturo Martinez Garza of the Mexican Federales
(b) The San Francisco police
(c) The FBI
(d) The CIA

2. Who 'fails' the acid test?
(a) Kesey
(b) Owsley, the famous LSD maker
(c) Babbs
(d) Freewheeling Frank

3. Back in Manzanillo, who sits in jail?
(a) A bunch of Kesey devotees
(b) Babbs and Zonker
(c) Mountain Girl and Black Maria
(d) Hagen and Ram Rod

4. What is Kesey's alias in Guadalajara?
(a) Diablo, or the Devil
(b) Jerry Garcia
(c) Guadalupe
(d) Sol Almande, or Salamander

5. What do some Pranksters think of Babbs's leadership style?
(a) They think he's like the Dalai Lama
(b) They think he's cool
(c) They think he's very much like Kesey
(d) They don't like it. It's Army style

6. Who followed Haugen to Mexico?
(a) His wife
(b) An angry ex-girlfriend
(c) Some beautiful deb
(d) His sister

7. How does Wolfe describe Haight-Ashbury at this point in the story?
(a) A carnival
(b) A rival for New York
(c) A center for culture and design
(d) A circus

8. What is the Probation Generation?
(a) A generation that believes prison is better than freedom
(b) It's a generation of kids who have been busted for pot possession and are all free on probation
(c) A generation of kids refusing to do anything that will get them in trouble
(d) A generation that's on probation until it proves it's worthy of freedome

9. What does Kesey plan to do to wreck the psychedelic movement once and for all?
(a) Join the Grateful Dead
(b) Hold an Acid Test Graduation on Halloween
(c) Hold a drug-free party for the nation
(d) Denounce his past completely

10. Who is coming to San Francisco in September 1965?
(a) The Yardbirds
(b) The Rolling Stones
(c) The Beatles
(d) Malcolm X

11. What is Black Maria's real name?
(a) Carol Sayer Bager
(b) Carolyn Hannah
(c) Maria de la Puente
(d) Carolyn Johnson

12. How much time does Kesey serve?
(a) Five months on a working farm
(b) Five months under house arrest
(c) Five weeks in solitary confinement
(d) Six months in a maximum security prison

13. Kesey moves with his family to:
(a) Mexico
(b) Colorado
(c) Oregon
(d) Canada

14. Do all of the Pranksters think giving out laced Kool-Aid without telling people is a good idea?
(a) No
(b) Yes
(c) They don't comment on that
(d) They don't care because people will try it anyway

15. What confuses the cops about the LSD "crazies"?
(a) They look like zombies
(b) They look so unhealthy, it's a miracle they're alive
(c) They look so healthy for people doing so much drugs
(d) They're so thin

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Page discover?

2. If Kesey goes back to the U.S. he'll be imprisoned. What do the rest of the group have to look forward to?

3. Do the Grateful Dead agree to play at this big party?

4. To what does Wolfe compare Kesey and the Acid Test?

5. Kesey decides he wants to turn the world onto LSD through:

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