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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. With whom did the producers of the television show send Jack out after his performance?
(a) A prostitute.
(b) The host of the show.
(c) A Hollywood starlet.
(d) A Hollywood agent.

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

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

4. Where does the narrator say is "home" 3,000 miles away in Chapter 1?
(a) New Haven.
(b) Queens.
(c) Long Island.
(d) Brooklyn.

5. What book does Jack refer to reading in the cabin at 3 a.m. in Chapter 5?
(a) Frankenstein.
(b) Finnegan's Wake.
(c) Ulysses.
(d) Dr. Jekyll and Mister Hyde.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was Montesanto's nickname in college?

2. How high is the cliff the narrator sees the morning of Chapter 4?

3. What novel does the narrator say he read in the shack with a shrug in Chapter 7?

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

5. What does the narrator write that every woodsman needs in Chapter 9?

(see the answer key)

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