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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 Galatea?
(a) Ed Dunkel's new wife.
(b) Sal's new girlfriend.
(c) Dean Moriarty's new girlfriend.
(d) Sal's brother's wife.

2. Where do Sal and Dean decide to visit before returning to San Francisco?
(a) Denver.
(b) New Orleans.
(c) Chicago.
(d) Houston.

3. Who sends letters to Sal and tells him about Dean Moriarty?
(a) Roland Major.
(b) Chad King.
(c) Carlo Marx.
(d) Old Bull Lee.

4. Where is Sal Paradise living at the beginning of On the Road?
(a) With his brother in Virginia.
(b) With Carlo Marx in Denver.
(c) With his aunt in New Jersey.
(d) With Roland Major in Denver.

5. How does Dean treat Sal's friends while in Denver?
(a) As though they do not exist.
(b) With great reverence.
(c) As long-time friends.
(d) With great animosity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What time of year do Sal and Dean reunite after Sal's first trip?

2. Where does Sal go with Babe Rawlins in a mining town outside of Denver?

3. What does Dean want his friends to help him with?

4. Where do Sal and Eddie receive job offers to work in Iowa?

5. What do Sal and another woman he meets on the bus do until her stop in Columbus, Ohio?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Sal Paradise travel West?

2. Why do Sal and his hitchhiker friend, Eddie, part in Iowa?

3. What is Sal's relationship like with Rita Bettencourt?

4. Who is "The Ghost?"

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

6. Why does Dean Moriarty visit Sal at his aunt's house in Patterson, New Jersey?

7. What does Dean inform the group about at a party where Carlo is reading his poetry?

8. Why does Sal break up with Lucille?

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

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

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