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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 to put a rift in his friendship with Dean and Camille?
(a) He takes some of their money.
(b) He hurls insults at them.
(c) He reports Dean to the police.
(d) He does not share any of the sandwiches he made for his trip.

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

3. What news does Dean share with Stan and Sal while in Mexico?
(a) Dean wants to extend their trip to Guatemala.
(b) Camille is going to have another child.
(c) Dean's father is being released from prison.
(d) Dean has a divorce from Camille.

4. Why is Dean unable to work in San Francisco?
(a) Because of his excessive drinking.
(b) He has to tend to Camille.
(c) He has injured his hand.
(d) Because of his frequent out of town trips.

5. What does Dean tell Sal after their first real argument?
(a) That he will not travel with Sal to New York.
(b) That he has been crying.
(c) That he does not want to be Sal's friend.
(d) That he is sorry.

Short Answer Questions

1. What news does Sam Brady deliver to Dean?

2. Where do Sal, Dean, and Marylou drop Alfred off?

3. What does Sal do when he returns to Denver in the spring of 1949?

4. What action does Camille take with Dean and Sal in San Francisco?

5. Where do Sal and Marylou stay in San Francisco?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What place do Dean and Sal plan to travel to where they have never been before?

3. What decision did the other passengers override Sal and Dean on in Sacramento?

4. Who are the other passengers in the travel bureau car that belongs to a wealthy man in Chicago?

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

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

7. What happens when Sal and Dean return the travel bureau car in Chicago?

8. How do Sal, Dean, and Marylou get money so they can make it from Arizona to California?

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

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

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