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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Princess and Ray do after they have sex?
(a) Take a bath
(b) Read together
(c) Hitch a ride to Mexico
(d) Buy wine

2. What does Ray see as being the only decent activity left in the world?
(a) To hike
(b) To pray
(c) To think
(d) To meditate

3. Who has the strange sensation of deja vu when he is hiking further up in elevation?
(a) Ray
(b) No one
(c) Japhy
(d) Morley

4. What kind of writer is Ray Smith, the main character and narrator of this story?
(a) Sports
(b) Fashion
(c) Beat
(d) Crime

5. What do the police consider to be an arresting offense, according to the bum Ray meets?
(a) Drinking
(b) Writing
(c) Vagrancy
(d) Meditating

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the Chinese call it when they do nothing else?

2. What does Alvah later refer to as the activity with Princess, Japhy, Ray and himself ?

3. After Princess leaves, Japhy comes over to Alvah's house with a guest. Who is it?

4. What does the other bum on the train tell Ray can be cured by standing on one's head and drinking honey with milk?

5. How far ahead does Japhy get from Ray and Morley?

(see the answer key)

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