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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 John Banks call himself?

2. What time does Jack and his mother reach their final destination?

3. How much does Jack have to pay to take his mother on a quick trip to Mexico?

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

5. What does Ruth contract from Jack?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Jack forced to sit with in the dining room on his journey back to New York and why?

2. How does Jack describe Cody when he tries to retrieve some money lent to him?

3. How does Jack describe his mother as he gets ready for his trip to California with her?

4. How does Jack feel about the Beat society by the time he is ready to leave Tangiers?

5. What does Jack find when he returns to Mexico to write a new novel?

6. What annoys the girls in Paris about Jack and Raphael?

7. What does Jack find when he returns from helping a friend move some of his things?

8. What happens on Jack's first night in Mexico City at the end of the book?

9. What happens to Cody shortly after Jack leaves for Florida?

10. How does Angie describe what love should be like to her son?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The characters in this book all have their own goals and motivations. Select four characters and write their main motivation throughout the book and how this goal affected the other characters around them.

Essay Topic 2

Friendship is a strong theme throughout the book. Where are some places that this theme appears, and how do the characters touched by it react? How do certain friendships change over the course of the book, and what causes these changes?

Essay Topic 3

Jack showed devotion to a number of different people and organizations. Who were these people and organizations, and how did Jack's devotion to them alter the course of the plot?

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