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

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

3. Who is the mutual friend with Sal Paradise and Mississippi Gene?
(a) Montana Slim.
(b) Dean Moriarty.
(c) Big Slim Hazard.
(d) Remi Boncoeur.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does the driver who gives Sal a ride from Harrisburg to New York refuse to give Sal any food?

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

3. Which reason is NOT a reason why Sal dislikes his job at the army barracks?

4. How does Dean treat Sal's friends while in Denver?

5. What does Lee Ann do after Remi loses their money at the horse races?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Sal confess to Dean while traveling from New Jersey to Virginia?

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

3. Why does Sal want to leave Denver?

4. How does Sal react after he introduces Dean Moriarty to Carlo Marx?

5. Why doesn't the driver offer Sal any food on his trip from Pittsburgh to New York?

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

7. What is the wildest ride of Sal's journey?

8. What does the group of friends do while in New York on New Year's Eve?

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

10. Who is "The Ghost?"

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