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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 when he returns to Denver in the spring of 1949?
(a) He trains as a rodeo clown.
(b) He works as a laborer.
(c) He goes to bars and listens to jazz music.
(d) He writes poetry.

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

3. What is the best time of day for Old Bull?
(a) Late nights.
(b) The mornings.
(c) The evenings.
(d) The afternoons.

4. Who rescues Sal from the hotel in San Francisco?
(a) Marylou.
(b) Remi Boncoeur.
(c) Dean Moriarty.
(d) Roland Major.

5. How does Sal justify Dean's behavior to Old Bull Lee?
(a) That Dean had a rough childhood.
(b) That Old Bull Lee is too snobby.
(c) That Dean has a zest for life and is living fully.
(d) That Dean is only that way when drunk or on drugs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sal and Dean do while bar-hopping in Denver?

2. What is Sal's and Marylou's plan before they arrive in San Francisco?

3. Who does Dean meet at a party in New York?

4. What happens to Sal in Mexico City?

5. Who is Marylou's new boyfriend in San Francisco?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dean's cousin, Sam Brady, tell Dean when he was attempting to locate his father in Denver?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. What does Sal do to put a damper on the friendship with Dean and Camille?

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

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