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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 24.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What seems to extend for nearly 25 miles over Los Angeles?
(a) Peace
(b) Broken dreams
(c) Sorrow
(d) A smog cloud

2. What is Ray concerned about as he and Japhy begin to go on a hike together?
(a) The amount of food
(b) Japhy's physical health
(c) Warren
(d) His lack of experience

3. What does Ray tell those that ask him about his peculiar habits?
(a) He says nothing.
(b) It's none of their business.
(c) He likes to sleep and be alone.
(d) He tells them he is communing with nature.

4. Where is the other bum from, as Ray finds out during their conversation?
(a) Ohio
(b) Maine
(c) Florida
(d) California

5. To what city does Ray buy a bus ticket after he sleeps in a ditch several miles outside of Los Angeles?
(a) Oakland
(b) Riverside
(c) San Francisco
(d) Berkeley

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do Japhy and one of the owners of the house work during the day?

2. Who has the strange sensation of deja vu when he is hiking further up in elevation?

3. Where was Ray staying before he arrives in Los Angeles at the beginning of the story?

4. Whose house is Ray trying to reach as he is hitchhiking across the United States?

5. How many men get together at Japhy's small house?

(see the answer key)

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