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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Part I - Passing Through Mexico: Chapters 40 - 43 | Book II, Part I - Passing Through Mexico: Chapters 44 - 48.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jack do while he sits alone on Gaines's roof?
(a) Meditates.
(b) Smokes.
(c) Prays.
(d) Writes.

2. What does Gaines give Lazarus when he falls ill?
(a) Marijuana.
(b) Morphine.
(c) Tylenol.
(d) Whiskey.

3. What does Jack discuss with the two friends he meets on the street?
(a) Poetry and death.
(b) Experience and misery.
(c) Life and Joy.
(d) Knowledge and Wisdom.

4. Why does Raphael need help packing?
(a) He wants to account for all of his possesions.
(b) He is breaking up with his girl.
(c) He is too ill to do it all himself.
(d) He is going to Europe.

5. What does Jack call his friend, Simon?
(a) Poetry in motion.
(b) The mad Russian.
(c) A wrteched poet and dreamer.
(d) The Prussian officer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack do whenever something sad happens to him?

2. Where does Jack's mother live?

3. What does Jack live on while typing up the work he wrote in Mexico?

4. To Jack, the forest service is a metaphor of what?

5. What is Simon diagnosed with after his night with a prostitute in Mexico?

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