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

2. Which three people does Sal meet on the "ride of his life"?
(a) Montana Slim, Mississippi Gene, and the blonde boy.
(b) Montana Slim, Mississippi Gene, and Ed Wall.
(c) Big Slim Hazard, Alabama Gene, and the blonde boy.
(d) Big Slim Hazard, Mississippi Gene, and the blonde boy.

3. Who was born on the road?
(a) Dean Moriarty.
(b) Sal Paradise.
(c) Chad King.
(d) Carlo Marx.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Sal travel after his first visit to San Francisco?

2. Where do Sal and Dean decide to visit before returning to San Francisco?

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

4. What does Lucille think about Sal's friends?

5. What is "The Ghost's" destination?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. What job does Remi Boncoeur find for, Sal when he arrives in San Francisco?

7. Who is traveling with Mississippi Gene?

8. What are Sal's living arrangements while he is in Denver?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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