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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What does the narrator write that every woodsman needs in Chapter 9?
2. Who has the narrator planned to meet incognito in San Francisco?
3. What is the getaway driver's name in Chapter 16?
4. Who is singing like Chet Baker in Chapter 19?
5. Where does the narrator say that only weeks earlier, he'd fallen flat on his head in Chapter 6?
Short Essay Questions
1. What animal does Jack encounter in Chapter 4? How does he describe this and the landscape?
2. In what "chores" does the narrator find peace in Chapter 6?
3. What does Jack describe as he leaves for Big Sur in Chapter 2?
4. After leaving Cody's house, where does the group decide to go and who do they meet up with?
5. What does Jack decide to do in Chapter 9? How does he go about leaving?
6. What quotes of Emerson does Kerouac use in Chapter 7? What do these propel the narrator to do?
7. What do the descriptions in Chapter 3 relate about the protagonist?
8. Where is Jack in the beginning of the novel? What were his initial plans and why did they change?
9. How does the protagonist view the cliffs and his surroundings in Chapter 4?
10. How do Buddhist fundamentals relate to Jack's relationship with nature in Chapter 8? How do these change later in the novel?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the character of Billie Dabney. How is her relationship to the narrator illustrated? How do her actions contribute to the actions of the protagonist?
Essay Topic 2
Describe the literary allusions in the book. What poets, authors, and thinkers does the narrator read, quote from, and discuss? What do these lead the reader to understand?
Essay Topic 3
Discuss and describe the religious and spiritual allusions in Big Sur. What religions and philosophies does the author refer to and in what context?
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