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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. In Chapter 14, which character is described as a strange kid from Oregon with hair like Raul Castro?
(a) Cody Pomeray.
(b) Dave Wain.
(c) Joey Rosenberg.
(d) George Baso.

2. What is the name of the bookshop owned by the narrator's friend?
(a) City Books.
(b) Beat Books.
(c) San Francisco Books.
(d) City Lights.

3. What poem has McLear recently written in Chapter 19?
(a) "Lonely Night."
(b) "Dark Brown."
(c) "Beat Bible."
(d) "Dark Blue."

4. Who drives the narrator to see Cody in Chapter 17?
(a) Lorenzo Monsanto.
(b) Dave Wain.
(c) Arthur Ma.
(d) Cody Pomeray.

5. What drink does the narrator drink at the bar throughout the book?
(a) Double bourbons and gingerale.
(b) Double gin and tonics.
(c) Double manhattans.
(d) Double martinis.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator stay up all night talking gibberish with in Chapter 19?

2. The narrator writes in Chapter 10, "With my mind even and upright and abiding nowhere, as ____ would say."

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

4. How does the narrator describe the mule in Chapter 6?

5. What bar does the narrator go to in Chapter 11?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the protagonist's feelings of himself in Chapters 1 and 2 foreshadow that which occurs later in the novel?

2. What does Jack tell himself and thus do in the beginning of Chapter 3? What does the driver tell him?

3. What in Chapter 3 is an example of foreshadowing?

4. What does Jack describe as he leaves for Big Sur in Chapter 2?

5. After leaving Cody's house, where does the group decide to go and who do they meet up with?

6. In Chapter 5, how does Jack's relationship to nature change?

7. What does Jack describe as his feelings for the cabin in Chapter 6? To whom does he speak to of his feelings?

8. What does Jack recall of George Baso in Chapter 15?

9. What do the descriptions in Chapter 3 relate about the protagonist?

10. What "sign" does Jack speak of in Chapter 10 and why?

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