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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Who is the beatnik painter passed out on the bed in Chapter 1?
(a) Steven Morris.
(b) Cody Pomeray.
(c) Brian Santori.
(d) Robert Browning.

5. What is the name of the "skid row" hotel in which the narrator has been staying in Chapter 1?
(a) The Harston.
(b) The Redlight.
(c) The Savoy.
(d) The Mars.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. What does the narrator write that the fishes of the sea speak in Chapter 7?

5. What is Kerouac's fictionalized name in Big Sur?

(see the answer key)

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