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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 happens when Camille finds out about Inez?
(a) She is indifferent.
(b) They become friends.
(c) She threatens suicide.
(d) Camille is furious and wants a divorce from Dean.

2. What is one of the things Sal and Dean discuss before Dean departs West to see Camille and his children?
(a) That Sal, Dean, and Dean's father could take a trip together.
(b) That maybe Sal could rent a room at Dean and Camille's house.
(c) That Dean and his family and Sal and his future family could live on the same street.
(d) That Sal could marry Camille after she and Dean get a divorce.

3. Who is Sam Brady?
(a) Sal's friend.
(b) A hitchhiker.
(c) A bar owner.
(d) Dean's cousin.

4. How does Dean greet Sal when he arrives at his door step in 1949?
(a) He gives Sal a big hug.
(b) He answers the door naked.
(c) He is inebriated.
(d) He slams the door in Sal's face.

5. What happens to Sal in Mexico City?
(a) He meets a woman and falls in love.
(b) He gets arrested.
(c) He gets in a car accident.
(d) He gets dysentery.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does their friend assist Sal, Dean, and Stan in Mexico?

2. Who rescues Sal from the hotel in San Francisco?

3. What is Dean's reaction to his passengers being terrified of his driving on his trip from Denver to Chicago?

4. Where do Dean and Sal stay in Detroit?

5. In Part 3, what do Sal and Dean's travel companions to Denver want to do in Sacramento?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Stan on the way to Mexico?

2. What arrives in San Francisco that allows Sal to return to New York?

3. Who do Sal and Dean ride with in a travel bureau car from San Francisco to Denver?

4. What happens between Sal and Marylou in San Francisco?

5. Where do Sal, Dean, and Stan Shepherd travel in Part 4 of On the Road?

6. Why are the car owner and the couple all too happy to drop Sal and Dean off in Denver?

7. How does a wealthy woman assist Sal in Denver?

8. What happens when Dean returns to see Sal at the hotel?

9. Whose ranch do Sal, Dean, and the two passengers visit in Colorado?

10. What is happening in Dean and Camille's lives when Sal visits them in San Francisco in the spring of 1949?

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