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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. At the beginning of the book, what song does the narrator say the church is blowing on the bells in the slums?
(a) "Kathleen."
(b) "O Holy Night."
(c) "A Hymn to Mary."
(d) "Mary."

2. In Chapter 20, Arthur Ma asks why did who keep a notebook?
(a) F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) Allen Ginsberg.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Ernest Hemingway.

3. What is one of the two names the narrator planned on using as a code name in Chapter 1?
(a) James Joyce.
(b) Cody Pomeray.
(c) Adam Yulch.
(d) George Baso.

4. How high is the cliff the narrator sees the morning of Chapter 4?
(a) Two thousand feet.
(b) A thousand feet.
(c) A hundred feet.
(d) Two hundred feet.

5. Where does the narrator say is "home" 3,000 miles away in Chapter 1?
(a) Brooklyn.
(b) New Haven.
(c) Queens.
(d) Long Island.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was Jack Kerouac born and raised?

2. What does the narrator write that every woodsman needs in Chapter 9?

3. What does the narrator compare the black rocks to in Chapter 4?

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

5. What does the narrator say is God's movie in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

1. In what ways does Jack communicate or interact with the animals at Big Sur in Chapter 8?

2. What is the purpose of Jack's and Arthur Ma's conversation in Chapter 19?

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

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

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

6. What animal does Jack encounter in Chapter 4? How does he describe this and the landscape?

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

8. What does Jack decide to do in Chapter 9? How does he go about leaving?

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

10. In what "chores" does the narrator find peace in Chapter 6?

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