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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. Who is Mississippi Gene harboring from the law?
(a) Montana Slim.
(b) Dean Moriarty.
(c) A young blonde boy.
(d) Eddie.

2. Who does Sal encounter after his date with Rita Bettencourt?
(a) Some hobos.
(b) Carlo Marx.
(c) Some Okies.
(d) Marylou.

3. What do Carlo and Dean take to help them stay up all night for their chat sessions?
(a) LSD.
(b) Asprin.
(c) Caffeine.
(d) Benzedrine.

4. Which of the flat bed truck riders stays with Sal in Cheyenne?
(a) Mississippi Gene.
(b) Roland Major.
(c) Big Slim Hazard.
(d) Montana Slim.

5. After Sal leaves Terry, he rides a bus from Los Angeles to which city?
(a) Columbus.
(b) Harrisburg.
(c) New York City.
(d) Pittsburgh.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dean want to travel before his divorce with Marylou?

2. What is Central City?

3. Who does Dean move in with after he breaks up with his girlfriend in New York?

4. In which city does Sal end the "ride of his life'?

5. Who is the mutual friend with Sal Paradise and Mississippi Gene?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sal stop in Cheyenne instead of continuing to Los Angeles with the two brothers from Minnesota?

2. What is happening in Sal Paradise's life before he meets Dean Moriarty?

3. Why does Sal want to leave Denver?

4. Who do Dean, Marylou, and Ed Dunkel leave in Tucson and why?

5. What do Sal, Ray Rawlins, and others do in an old mining town outside of Denver?

6. Why does Lee Ann throw Remi out of their house?

7. What is the vow Sal and Terry make when Sal leaves for New York?

8. What does Sal find out when he calls Chad King after he arrives in Denver?

9. Who is "The Ghost?"

10. Who is traveling with Mississippi Gene?

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