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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did the producers of the television show send Jack out after his performance?
(a) A Hollywood agent.
(b) A Hollywood starlet.
(c) The host of the show.
(d) A prostitute.

2. On what show did the narrator practice his poetry in Hollywood a year prior in Chapter 6?
(a) The David Lahr Show.
(b) The Steve Allen Show.
(c) The Lawrence Welk Show.
(d) The Johnny Carson Show.

3. What book does Jack refer to reading in the cabin at 3 a.m. in Chapter 5?
(a) Ulysses.
(b) Finnegan's Wake.
(c) Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde.
(d) Frankenstein.

4. Who has the narrator planned to meet incognito in San Francisco?
(a) Lorenz Monsanto.
(b) Cody Pomeray.
(c) George Baso.
(d) Ramona Swartz.

5. 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."
(a) Sharp.
(b) Edmund Spenser.
(c) Terrible.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of the pet mule of the local settlers in the book?

2. What is the name of the bookshop owned by the narrator's friend?

3. To whom did the narrator say, "Allow me to stay here, I only want peace"?

4. What color is the bridge where Jack is let off from the cab in Chapter 3?

5. At the beginning of the book, what song does the narrator say the church is blowing on the bells in the slums?

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