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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When does the narrator write he had to sweat out a fever in Mexico after the earthquake in Chapter 5?
(a) 1959.
(b) 1952.
(c) 1960.
(d) 1957.

2. What does the narrator say is God's movie in Chapter 6?
(a) The animals.
(b) Nature.
(c) The women.
(d) Us.

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

4. Who does the narrator fantasize about talking to in Chapter 6?
(a) Authors.
(b) Women.
(c) Friends.
(d) Waiters.

5. How high is the cliff the narrator sees the morning of Chapter 4?
(a) Two thousand feet.
(b) A thousand feet.
(c) Two hundred feet.
(d) A hundred feet.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Jack Kerouac born and raised?

2. Where does the narrator say that only weeks earlier, he'd fallen flat on his head in Chapter 6?

3. 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."

4. What are the black things the narrator sees in the sand 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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