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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was Montesanto's nickname in college?
(a) Poet.
(b) Chessmaster.
(c) Graybeard.
(d) Smiler.
2. What name does the narrator refer to himself as a child in Chapter 7?
(a) Little Jack.
(b) Ti Jean.
(c) Ti Jack.
(d) Little John.
3. How old is the character of Arthur Ma?
(a) 41.
(b) 30.
(c) 35.
(d) 23.
4. What does the narrator feed the mouse in Chapter 8?
(a) Cheese and chocolate.
(b) Nuts and fruit.
(c) Cheese and milk.
(d) Cheese and nuts.
5. What novel does the narrator say he read in the shack with a shrug in Chapter 7?
(a) "The End of Time."
(b) "Steppenwolf."
(c) "Finnegan's Wake."
(d) "Ulysses."
Short Answer Questions
1. Who does Jack curse himself for returning to the cabin with later in Chapter 5?
2. What is the name of the "skid row" hotel in which the narrator has been staying in Chapter 1?
3. What drinks the narrator's canned milk in Chapter 8?
4. What month is it when Jack is in the cabin in Chapter 6?
5. What does the narrator compare the black rocks to in Chapter 4?
Short Essay Questions
1. Where is Jack in the beginning of the novel? What were his initial plans and why did they change?
2. What exposition does the narrator relay of Cody's imprisonment in Chapter 13?
3. What does Jack tell himself and thus do in the beginning of Chapter 3? What does the driver tell him?
4. What in Chapter 3 is an example of foreshadowing?
5. In what ways does the narrator reflect upon the history of Big Sur in Chapter 7?
6. In Chapter 5, how does Jack's relationship to nature change?
7. What story does Jack relate in Chapter 6 of Hollywood? Why does the author relate this information?
8. What do the descriptions in Chapter 3 relate about the protagonist?
9. How do the protagonist's feelings of himself in Chapters 1 and 2 foreshadow that which occurs later in the novel?
10. What animal does Jack encounter in Chapter 4? How does he describe this and the landscape?
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