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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 37.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What aspect of Perry creeps out the narrator?
(a) Homosexuality.
(b) Violence.
(c) Pedophilia.
(d) Smugness.

2. What newspaper does the narrator find with his name all over it in Chapter 22?
(a) San Francisco Chronicle.
(b) San Francis Chronicle.
(c) San Francisco Gazette.
(d) New York Times.

3. What drinks the narrator's canned milk in Chapter 8?
(a) A mouse.
(b) A hummingbird.
(c) A bluejay.
(d) A cricket.

4. 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) Sharp.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Edmund Spenser.

5. What sound is overwhelming to the narrator when he exits the cab in Chapter 3?
(a) Rain and wind.
(b) The chirping of birds.
(c) Thunder.
(d) The roar of surf.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator say advised, "Drink a lot of water," in Chapter 36?

2. In the forward to the book, to what writer does Kerouac compare his works?

3. Who wrote, "You go out in joy and in sadness you return"?

4. Who wrote, "When the various experiences come to light in meditation, do not be proud and anxious to tell other people, else to Goddesses and Mothers you will bring annoyance"?

5. Where does the narrator say that only weeks earlier, he'd fallen flat on his head in Chapter 6?

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