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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. At the beginning of the book, what song does the narrator say the church is blowing on the bells in the slums?
(a) "Mary."
(b) "Kathleen."
(c) "O Holy Night."
(d) "A Hymn to Mary."

2. Where was Jack Kerouac born and raised?
(a) New York, New York.
(b) Newark, New Jersey.
(c) Lowell, Massachusetts.
(d) San Francisco, Calilfornia.

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

4. What does the narrator refer to his nightmare he'd had in New York in Chapter 5?
(a) "Mountain of the Mo Mien."
(b) "Mountain of the Night Terror."
(c) "Mountain of Vultures."
(d) "Mountain of the Mien Mo."

5. In his last line of Chapter 6, the narrator says the best thing is to not be what?
(a) A lover.
(b) False.
(c) A drunk.
(d) A liar.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The narrator writes that within what time period, he lost complete control of the peace mechanisms of his mind?

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

4. What is the name of the "skid row" hotel in which the narrator has been staying in Chapter 1?

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

(see the answer key)

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