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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. Who do Sal, Dean, and Marylou meet in Texas?
2. Where does Sal, Dean, and Marylou's car run off the road into the mud?
3. How does Sal get the money to leave San Francisco for the second time?
4. How does Dean greet Sal when he arrives at his door step in 1949?
5. What news does Sam Brady deliver to Dean?
Short Essay Questions
1. What happens to Sal, Dean, and Marylou's car in Texas?
2. Where do Sal, Dean, and Stan Shepherd travel in Part 4 of On the Road?
3. How does a wealthy woman assist Sal in Denver?
4. What happens between Sal and Marylou in San Francisco?
5. What happens to Stan on the way to Mexico?
6. What happens when Sal and Dean return the travel bureau car in Chicago?
7. What is happening in Dean and Camille's lives when Sal visits them in San Francisco in the spring of 1949?
8. How do Sal, Dean, and Marylou get money so they can make it from Arizona to California?
9. What does Camille do to Dean and Sal in the spring of 1949?
10. Who are the other passengers in the travel bureau car that belongs to a wealthy man in Chicago?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
In Des Moines, Sal experiences the distinction of the East of his youth and the West of his future.
a. What does the West represent to Sal?
b. Contrast his life when he is living on the east coast and when he is living out west.
c. How have his voyages changed his views on life?
Essay Topic 2
On the Road depicts counterculture in 1950s America.
a. How do the main characters exemplify counterculture in the novel?
b. Why were they considered counterculture at the time?
c. Would they still be considered counterculture today?
Essay Topic 3
a. Why is being on the road so important to the Beat Movement?
b. What transformations or epiphanies do the following characters have, if any, after being "on the road"? Cite specific examples from the book.
- Sal Paradise
- Dean Moriarty
- Ed Dunkel
- Stan Shepherd
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