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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the narrator carrying in Chapter 3?
(a) A lamp.
(b) A knife.
(c) A flashlight.
(d) A rope.

2. Who does the narrator say has prevailed over the American male's ideals now in Chapter 10?
(a) The A.S.P.C.A.
(b) The P.T.A.
(c) Family.
(d) The television.

3. What is the name of the bridge where the cab drops off Jack in Chapter 3?
(a) Big Sur.
(b) Raton Bluff.
(c) Raton Canyon.
(d) Tuscan Canyon.

4. What novel does the narrator say he read in the shack with a shrug in Chapter 7?
(a) "Steppenwolf."
(b) "The End of Time."
(c) "Ulysses."
(d) "Finnegan's Wake."

5. Who wrote, "You go out in joy and in sadness you return"?
(a) Thomas a Kempis.
(b) Timothy a Kempis.
(c) Jack Worndow.
(d) Michael Willingston.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator crawl through as he travels the road in Chapter 3?

2. What drinks the narrator's canned milk in Chapter 8?

3. What is the name of the narrator's cat?

4. The narrator writes in Chapter 3, "I'm afraid to go down there--I am affrayed in the old _____ sense of being frayed by a whip."

5. Which author does the narrator say wrote the inanities of the sea because he wasn't going to do it when he's dead?

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