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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In the forward to the book, to what writer does Kerouac compare his works?
(a) Proust.
(b) Poe.
(c) Rimbaud.
(d) Fitzgerald.

3. What is the name of the pet mule of the local settlers in the book?
(a) Jojo.
(b) Bingo.
(c) Alf.
(d) Robert.

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

5. What is the name of the bookshop owned by the narrator's friend?
(a) City Books.
(b) Beat Books.
(c) City Lights.
(d) San Francisco Books.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are the black things the narrator sees in the sand in Chapter 3?

2. What is one of the two names the narrator planned on using as a code name in Chapter 1?

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

4. What month is it when Jack is in the cabin in Chapter 6?

5. Who does the narrator fantasize about talking to in Chapter 6?

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