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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 do after his first road trip?
(a) He works on his manuscripts.
(b) He returns to school on the GI Bill.
(c) He re-enlists in the Merchant Marines.
(d) He sells pressure cookers.

2. What job does Sal find in Bakersfield?
(a) Security guard at an army barracks.
(b) Working at a carnival.
(c) Picking fruit.
(d) Picking cotton.

3. Who is Hyman Solomon?
(a) One of Bull Lee's friends.
(b) A horse that Bull Lee makes a bet on.
(c) A hobo.
(d) One of Dean's friends.

4. 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 Dean and Carlo are no longer friends.
(c) That Chad King, Carlo Marx and Dean Moriarty did not want to be friends with Sal.
(d) That he and Carlo Marx and Dean Moriarty are no longer friends,

5. What happens in Washington D.C. on the return trip from Virginia?
(a) Dean and Marylou have a fight.
(b) Dean receives a speeding ticket.
(c) They catch a glimpse of the President.
(d) The car goes off the road.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Sal see that makes him feel that he is closer to Denver?

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

3. What job does Dean find after Sal first meets him in New York?

4. What do Sal, Dean, and Ed Dunkel do when Hyman Solomon does not come through?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does Sal Paradise travel West?

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

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

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

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

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