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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To whom did the narrator say, "Allow me to stay here, I only want peace"?
(a) Alf.
(b) The local spirits.
(c) Lorenzo.
(d) Christ.

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

3. What does the narrator crawl through as he travels the road in Chapter 3?
(a) A barbed wire fence.
(b) A tangle of branches.
(c) A wooden fence.
(d) A stack of wood.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What old buddy does the the narrator send a letter to in Chapter 9?

2. 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."

3. Who does Jack curse himself for returning to the cabin with later in Chapter 5?

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

5. Where was Jack Kerouac born and raised?

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