The Dharma Bums Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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The Dharma Bums Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the profession of Henry Morley?
(a) Professor
(b) Police officer
(c) Librarian
(d) Naturalist

2. Who is uncomfortable in the more expensive restaurant where the men have dinner?
(a) Japhy
(b) Morley
(c) Ray
(d) Warren

3. How far is the hitchhike Ray is planning to do?
(a) 3,000 miles
(b) 100 miles
(c) 25 miles
(d) 2,000 miles

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

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

6. What do the men decide to do while they wait for Morley?
(a) Dance
(b) Do yoga
(c) Meditate
(d) Play cards

7. Who is the backwoods boy who grew up in a log cabin in the woods?
(a) Alvah
(b) Warren
(c) Ray
(d) Japhy

8. Which university does Ray live near?
(a) UC at Berkely
(b) UCLA
(c) UC at Irvine
(d) SFSU

9. What does Ray find in the mountain's face and climbs into it?
(a) A ledge
(b) A cabin
(c) A cave
(d) A tiny slot

10. Who is cantankerous, wanting to stop for frequent rests?
(a) Japhy
(b) Warren
(c) Ray
(d) Morley

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

12. What does Japhy do as they descend the mountain that scares Ray as he watches?
(a) Strips naked
(b) Sings
(c) Runs down the mountain
(d) Screams at the top of his lungs

13. What did Morley not bring with him on the camping trip?
(a) A rain coat
(b) Water
(c) A sleeping bag
(d) Food

14. Whose life is considered to be on the good path?
(a) Ray's
(b) Morley's
(c) Japhy's
(d) Sean's

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who wants to take a rest when the men are hiking together?

3. What does Ray find profound as he sits and contemplates the immensity of the mountains?

4. Where does Ray decide he will sleep instead of on a bed inside?

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

(see the answer keys)

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