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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What job does Remi Boncoeur find for Sal in San Francisco?
(a) A clerk at a grocery store.
(b) A parking lot attendant.
(c) A bartender.
(d) A night watchman at an army barracks.

2. What time of year do Sal and Dean reunite after Sal's first trip?
(a) Christmas time.
(b) During Easter.
(c) Summer time.
(d) Thanksgiving time.

3. How does Sal get the money to get from Denver to San Francisco?
(a) Roland Major gives him some money.
(b) He pawns his watch.
(c) He panhandles to earn the money.
(d) Sal's aunt wires him the money.

4. Who do Sal and Terry connect with in Sabinal?
(a) Terry's family and little son.
(b) Terry's abusive husband.
(c) Roland Major.
(d) Dean and Marylou.

5. Why do Sal and Dean take a quick trip from Virginia to New Jersey?
(a) Dean wanted to visit a girl.
(b) Sal forgot his typewriter.
(c) Miles Davis was performing.
(d) To deliver some furniture for Sal's aunt.

6. Who does Dean find jobs for in Denver?
(a) Carlo and Eddie.
(b) Roland and Eddie.
(c) Sal and Eddie.
(d) Sal and Roland.

7. What does Lee Ann do after Remi loses their money at the horse races?
(a) She makes him repay her.
(b) She kicks him out of their house.
(c) She forgives him.
(d) She yells at him.

8. What does Sal think after his date with Rita Bettencourt?
(a) He falls in love with her.
(b) There is no hope of a relationship developing.
(c) He is ambivalent and thinks maybe a second date would help him make up his mind.
(d) He has a good time and asks her for a second date.

9. Where does Sal sleep in Cheyenne?
(a) At a motel.
(b) In a park.
(c) At a train station.
(d) At a bus station.

10. Who is "The Ghost?"
(a) An old hobo.
(b) A drug-induced hallucination.
(c) Slang for a police officer.
(d) One of Sal's friends.

11. What is one of the things Sal enjoys doing in New Orleans?
(a) Exploring the voodoo culture.
(b) Listening to Old Bull's stories.
(c) Witnessing a jazz funeral.
(d) Bar hopping on Bourbon Street.

12. Who writes to Sal about the possibility of hopping an ocean liner in San Francisco?
(a) Old Bull Lee.
(b) Mississippi Gene.
(c) Remi Boncoeur.
(d) Dean Moriarty.

13. Who thinks Sal should not travel out West?
(a) Marylou.
(b) Carlo Marx.
(c) Sal's Aunt.
(d) Dean Moriarty.

14. Who arrives in Denver while Sal is staying there?
(a) Eddie.
(b) Mississippi Gene.
(c) Old Bull Lee.
(d) Remi Boncoeur.

15. What do Sal and another woman he meets on the bus do until her stop in Columbus, Ohio?
(a) They neck.
(b) They sleep.
(c) They discuss books.
(d) They play travel games.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why doesn't Sal show up for the first day of his job in Denver?

2. What favor does Remi ask of Lee Ann in San Francisco?

3. Who is Hyman Solomon?

4. Who are the two women in Dean's life in Denver?

5. Who did Dean, Marylou, and Ed Dunkel leave in Tucson and why?

(see the answer keys)

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