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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book II, Part III - Passing Through America Again: Chapters 73 - 74.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the shock of lightning remind Jack of?
(a) Writing.
(b) Evelyn.
(c) His father.
(d) An escape.

2. Which of the poets does one of the Ruths fall for when they reach New York?
(a) Jack.
(b) Simon.
(c) Raphael.
(d) Irwin.

3. What is Jack so shocked about when his journey with his mother finally ends?
(a) His mother does not like it.
(b) He does not recognize it.
(c) His town is ugly.
(d) His friends are there to greet him.

4. To Jack, the forest service is a metaphor of what?
(a) Nature.
(b) A child with too much responsibility.
(c) Totalitarian governments.
(d) The circle of life.

5. What does Jack plan to take to San Francisco with him according to his poem about going there?
(a) His books and some cigarettes.
(b) A sleeping bag and a bottle of wine.
(c) An idea and some gumption.
(d) The clothes on his back and a dream in his heart.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is most shocking to Angie about Mexicans?

2. How does Raphael feel about Mexico?

3. What does Jack's friend in Africa say he needs to purge himself of?

4. Where does Angie sleep on her first night in Berkeley?

5. Why does Gaines have cabs drop him off a block from his house?

(see the answer key)

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