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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who arrives after the gang at the cabin in Chapter 18?
(a) Ma.
(b) Wagner.
(c) Pomeray.
(d) McLear.

2. What is Jack happy to find along the road in Chapter 3?
(a) The bridge.
(b) The creek.
(c) The trees.
(d) The cliff.

3. What is the name of the pet mule of the local settlers in the book?
(a) Alf.
(b) Jojo.
(c) Robert.
(d) Bingo.

4. What does the narrator write that the fishes of the sea speak in Chapter 7?
(a) French.
(b) Breton.
(c) German.
(d) Latin.

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.

6. What does the narrator write that every woodsman needs in Chapter 9?
(a) Potatoes.
(b) Coffee.
(c) A notebook.
(d) Jello.

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

8. The narrator writes in Chapter 10, "With my mind even and upright and abiding nowhere, as ____ would say."
(a) Hing Ho.
(b) Ghorn Bhar.
(c) Kamratra.
(d) Hui Neng.

9. How old does the narrator say he is in the beginning of the book?
(a) 29.
(b) Almost 40.
(c) 32.
(d) Almost 50.

10. What author's book does the narrator begin reading in Chapter 17?
(a) Henry Farron.
(b) Bill Carroway.
(c) James Joyce.
(d) Samuel Johnson.

11. What are the black things the narrator sees in the sand in Chapter 3?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Mule dung.
(c) Rocks.
(d) Turtles.

12. Where has Cody been for the past two years in Chapter 13?
(a) New Orleans.
(b) San Quentin.
(c) New York.
(d) New York State Penitentiary.

13. Who wrote, "You go out in joy and in sadness you return"?
(a) Timothy a Kempis.
(b) Michael Willingston.
(c) Thomas a Kempis.
(d) Jack Worndow.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What name does the narrator refer to himself as a child in Chapter 7?

2. What was the narrator's brother's name who had passed away in his childhood?

3. What does the narrator refer to his socks as in the book?

4. Which author does the narrator say wrote the inanities of the sea because he wasn't going to do it when he's dead?

5. What is the name of the "skid row" hotel in which the narrator has been staying in Chapter 1?

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