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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator writes in Chapter 8 that, "ten delicate ____ slowly chewed at midnight is something no one's ever done in luxurious restaurants."
(a) Grapes.
(b) Olives.
(c) Candies.
(d) Chocolates.

2. What is Cody's son's name?
(a) Jackie.
(b) Billy John.
(c) Johnny.
(d) Timmy John.

3. How many miles does the narrator have to hike in Chapter 10?
(a) 14 miles.
(b) 30 miles.
(c) 20 miles.
(d) 10 miles.

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

5. In Chapter 9 the narrator writes that he feels he's just a sick what?
(a) Drunk.
(b) Clown.
(c) Artist.
(d) Poet.

Short Answer Questions

1. What name did Cody's character have in "On the Road"?

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

3. The narrator writes that the ferns are like those of the what Scripture in Chapter 5?

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

5. What did the narrator's mother write to tell him in Chapter 11?

(see the answer key)

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