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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, 17 & 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator refer to his socks as in the book?
(a) Sockiboos.
(b) Footies.
(c) Socksies.
(d) Tooties.

2. 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) Pollack.
(b) Poe.
(c) Wordsworth.
(d) James Joyce.

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) Sharp.
(d) Edgar Allan Poe.

4. In the forward to the book, to what writer does Kerouac compare his works?
(a) Poe.
(b) Fitzgerald.
(c) Rimbaud.
(d) Proust.

5. What does the narrator see on his porch from the mailbox which makes him happy in Chapter 9?
(a) His hat.
(b) His notebook.
(c) His suitcase.
(d) His handkerchief.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who has the narrator planned to meet incognito in San Francisco?

2. How much money does the narrator say he'll give Cody for rent in Chapter 17?

3. What does the narrator feed the mouse in Chapter 8?

4. What month is it when Jack is in the cabin in Chapter 6?

5. In his last line of Chapter 6, the narrator says the best thing is to not be what?

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