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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. Where do Sal, Dean, and Marylou drop Alfred off?
(a) Salinas, California.
(b) Tucson, Arizona.
(c) Needles, California.
(d) Tulare, California.

2. What does Sal do in Texas to get money to buy gas?
(a) He pawns his watch.
(b) He works in the field picking fruit.
(c) He holds up a liquor store.
(d) He panhandles.

3. What does Sal consider a sign that he and Dean need to leave Denver?
(a) When they see a lunar eclipse.
(b) When they see a white horse on the side of the road.
(c) When Sam Brady delivers the news that the family wants no interaction with Dean or his father.
(d) When their hotel room catches on fire.

4. How does Hal Hingham assist Sal and the others in Tucson?
(a) He lets them take a shower at his house.
(b) He buys them dinner.
(c) He lets them spend the night at his house.
(d) He gives them five dollars.

5. In Part 3, what do Sal and Dean's travel companions to Denver want to do in Sacramento?
(a) Go sightseeing.
(b) Leave Sal and Dean.
(c) Stop for lunch.
(d) Stay overnight.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Sam Brady?

2. What does Sal pack for his departure from San Francisco?

3. What are Sal and Dean's travel companions' reactions to dropping Sal and Dean off at their stop?

4. Where does Dean learn his father is?

5. What are Sal and Dean's travel companions' reactions when it is Dean's turn to take the wheel of the vehicle?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does Dean want to take the trip with Sal and Stan?

2. Sal and Dean have their first argument at a restaurant in Denver. What is the argument about?

3. What does Camille do to Dean and Sal in the spring of 1949?

4. What does Dean do when he, Sal, and Marylou arrive in San Francisco?

5. What happens to Sal in Mexico City?

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

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

8. What happens to Sal, Dean, and Marylou's car in Texas?

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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