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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which author does the narrator say wrote the inanities of the sea because he wasn't going to do it when he's dead?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Pollack.
(c) Wordsworth.
(d) Poe.

2. What old buddy does the the narrator send a letter to in Chapter 9?
(a) William.
(b) Julien.
(c) Gerard.
(d) Michael.

3. On which side is the bluff to Jack as he travels the road at night in Chapter 3?
(a) Behind him.
(b) His left.
(c) In front of him.
(d) His right.

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

5. 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) Terrible.
(c) Edmund Spenser.
(d) Sharp.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack fear in the brush as he travels down the road in Chapter 3?

2. What drinks the narrator's canned milk in Chapter 8?

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

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

5. Who is the beatnik painter passed out on the bed in Chapter 1?

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