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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 Irwin want Jack to be able to do with his fan mail?
(a) Return it.
(b) Dance on it.
(c) Use it to fuel a fire.
(d) Create works of art with it.

2. What does Jack like to invent?
(a) Games.
(b) Words.
(c) Drinks.
(d) Images.

3. What is Jack looking at when he has his first 'awakening'?
(a) The stars.
(b) A mouse.
(c) The sunrise.
(d) The Northern Lights.

4. What instrument does Moore play?
(a) Trumpet.
(b) Tenor saxophone.
(c) Piano.
(d) Bass guitar.

5. According to Jack, what has little place in a civilized world?
(a) Enlightenment of solitude.
(b) Judgement and arrogance.
(c) Peace and calm.
(d) Impatience and rudeness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Jack call his friend Irwin?

2. What does Jack do while he sits alone on Gaines's roof?

3. What does Jack say he should have done more of while on Desolation Peak?

4. What does Jack do with Cody's children while he is at work?

5. What does Jack call his friend, Simon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is so important to Jack about the date of August 22nd?

2. What is Jack's schedule like at college?

3. What does Jack think about the men looking at a pornographic magazine?

4. Why is Jack not affected by the news stories going on around him when he is in Washington?

5. What does Simon save his brother from?

6. What does Ruth suggest she and Jack do while the rest of the group wanders around Washington Square Park?

7. What illusion does Jack have about the moon one night about a month before he leaves Washington?

8. Why does Jack need a ride to Mill Valley?

9. What is so ironic to Jack as he descends the mountain where he has resided all season?

10. How does the waitress at the luncheonette treat Jack?

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