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

2. What novel does the narrator say he read in the shack with a shrug in Chapter 7?
(a) "The End of Time."
(b) "Ulysses."
(c) "Finnegan's Wake."
(d) "Steppenwolf."

3. The narrator writes that within what time period, he lost complete control of the peace mechanisms of his mind?
(a) Two months.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) Four weeks.
(d) Six months.

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

5. Where does the narrator say that only weeks earlier, he'd fallen flat on his head in Chapter 6?
(a) The Lower East Side.
(b) Queens.
(c) The Bowery.
(d) Brooklyn.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 9 the narrator writes that he feels he's just a sick what?

2. With whom did the producers of the television show send Jack out after his performance?

3. Where does the narrator say is "home" 3,000 miles away in Chapter 1?

4. What does the narrator say it's called when he rearranges the rock in the stream in Chapter 6?

5. On what day does the narrator say he began to get bored in Chapter 7?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who does Jack quote in Chapter 10 as he leaves the cabin? What does he say?

2. What story does Jack relate in Chapter 6 of Hollywood? Why does the author relate this information?

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

4. Why is the cabin as isolated as it is? What activity takes Jack an entire day in Chapter 6?

5. How does the protagonist view the cliffs and his surroundings in Chapter 4?

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

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

8. What quotes of Emerson does Kerouac use in Chapter 7? What do these propel the narrator to do?

9. How does Jack describe the nature surrounding him in Chapter 3?

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

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