Can You Pass the Acid Test Test?

My noble Chicago-based colleague Joe Lapsley is teaching The Republic of Rock in his course on the 1960s. He developed this “Acid Test Test” for his students after they read Chapter 1 of the book. To paraphrase Chief Merry Prankster Ken Kesey, Can you pass the Acid Test Test?

Joe Lapsley’s Acid Test Test

1.  Ken Kesey was first given LSD by

A) Allen Ginsberg

B) an Indian Shaman

C) a CIA-funded program

 

2.  Kramer likens an Acid Test to a

A) pirate ship

B) bonfire

C) volcano

 

3. Phil Lesh saw in the Acid Tests

A) egotistical evil

B) Cold War liberalism

C) spontaneous consensus

 

4.  The Acid Tests sought to avoid

A) simplistic libertarianism

B) constraining communitarianism

C) both A and B

 

5.  Kesey’s ideas about society were similar to Foucault’s

A) Pendulum

B) Panopticon

C) Pandemonium