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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 news does Sam Brady deliver to Dean?
(a) That Miles Davis will be performing in Denver.
(b) That Dean can live with him.
(c) That no one in his family cares to have any interaction with Dean or his father.
(d) That he used to date Camille.

2. Who do Sal and Dean travel with on their 1949 trip to Denver?
(a) A Mexican and a hobo.
(b) A homosexual man and a couple.
(c) A homosexual man and a hitchhiker.
(d) An Okie and a couple.

3. In Part 3, who takes the wheel of the vehicle that Dean and Sal are riding in while in Sacramento?
(a) One of the couple.
(b) The homosexual man.
(c) Sal .
(d) Dean.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Sal, Dean's soul is wrapped up in ______________________? (fill in the blank)

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

3. What does Old Bull think is a sign from Sal's deceased father?

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

5. Who does Sal meet in Denver on his third trip West?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens to Sal in Mexico City?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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