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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 is Dean's reaction to his passengers being terrified of his driving on his trip from Denver to Chicago?
(a) He mocks them.
(b) He does not notice.
(c) He is agitated.
(d) He feels guilty.

2. Who do Sal, Dean, and Stan meet in a town called Gregoria?
(a) Victor.
(b) Old Bull Lee.
(c) Javier.
(d) Hyman.

3. What do Sal and Dean discuss while traveling from Sacramento to Denver?
(a) Their dreams.
(b) Their friends.
(c) Their travel plans.
(d) Their sexual encounters.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Sal do to put a rift in his friendship with Dean and Camille?

2. Who do Sal, Dean, and Marylou meet in Texas?

3. How do Dean and Sal get to Denver in Part 3?

4. What plans do Sal and Stan make during Sal's last trip to Denver?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. What is the dream that both Sal and Dean have about driving?

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

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

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

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

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

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