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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where does the narrator say that only weeks earlier, he'd fallen flat on his head in Chapter 6?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) The Bowery.
(c) The Lower East Side.
(d) Queens.

2. How does the narrator describe the mule in Chapter 6?
(a) Rubinesque.
(b) Gauguinesque.
(c) Rimbaudesque.
(d) Martinesque.

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

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

5. What does Jack fear in the brush as he travels down the road in Chapter 3?
(a) Bears.
(b) Bats.
(c) Raccoons.
(d) Rattlesnakes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of trees is the narrator surrounded by in Chapter 3?

3. Where does the narrator say is "home" 3,000 miles away in Chapter 1?

4. In Chapter 1, who does the narrator say he was hiding with in San Francisco upon his arrival?

5. What does the narrator refer to his nightmare he'd had in New York in Chapter 5?

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