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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. Where does Yeamon suggest they go to?

2. What does Chenault want to do if Paul moves on?

3. What does Moberg use to pay the bond?

4. What do the locals tell Paul and Yeamon to do?

5. On what page of the newspaper is Paul's photo?

Short Essay Questions

1. What do Yeamon, Paul and Chenault do the next morning?

2. What has happened to Paul's, Yeamon's and Sala's methods of transport in Chapter 9?

3. How is Paul's life changing by the end of Chapter 16?

4. What does Paul think about his stay on the island?

5. Summarize Chapters 13 and 14.

6. What upsets Paul at the beginning of Chapter 10?

7. How does Lotterman react over the news that the company paid Paul and Sala's bail bonds?

8. Describe Paul's time with Chenault and Yeamon in Chapter 13.

9. How does the policeman react to Chenault's disappearance?

10. What does Chapter 13 say about Paul's ambition?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Though the novel was written in the 1960s, it was not published until 1998. Why do you think Hunter S. Thompson found it so difficult to find a publisher for the novel in the Sixties? What changes do you think he would have to make to the book to get it published in the Sixties? Why do you think the book was more publishable in the late Nineties?

Essay Topic 2

Compare life in 1960s Puerto Rico to life in Puerto Rico today. How has it changed? What caused these changes to take place? What would Paul's life be like in Puerto Rico if he went there today?

Essay Topic 3

What similarities does the Rum Diary share with Hunter S. Thompson's later work in terms of the following:

1) Style

2) Themes

3) Politics

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