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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 does Sal reunite with at the restaurant while having dinner with Lee Ann, Remi, and Remi's stepfather?
(a) Chad King.
(b) Ray Rawlins.
(c) Roland Major.
(d) Dean Moriarty.

2. What does Hyman Solomon offer Sal, Dean, and Ed Dunkel?
(a) To find some girls for Sal and Dean.
(b) To give them some drugs.
(c) To drive part of the way.
(d) To get some money in Testament, Virginia.

3. What does Sal learn when he meets up with Chad King in Denver?
(a) That Dean and Carlo are no longer friends.
(b) That Chad King, Carlo Marx and Dean Moriarty did not want to be friends with Sal.
(c) That he and Carlo Marx and Dean Moriarty are no longer friends,
(d) That Dean Moriarty and Carlo Marx had already left for San Francisco.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What New York hitchhiker does Sal meet in Des Moines?

2. What does Sal think about his job in Bakersfield?

3. What does Dean inform his friends about at a party where Carlo is reading poetry?

4. Who is accompanying Dean on his trip to Virginia?

5. Who is Hyman Solomon?

Short Essay Questions

1. What favor does Remi ask Lee Ann before he moves out of their house?

2. Who is "The Ghost?"

3. Why do Sal and Terry go to Terry's home town of Sabinal?

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

5. What does Old Bull Lee warn Sal about in New Orleans?

6. What does Sal's aunt do when Dean is given a speeding ticket?

7. How does Sal get the money to travel from Denver to San Francisco?

8. When and where does Sal meet up with Dean after living in Denver?

9. What happens to Sal, Dean, Marylou, and Ed Dunkel in Washington, D.C.?

10. Why does Sal break up with Lucille?

(see the answer keys)

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