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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ray realize about the time of year when he is traveling around?
(a) It is clear.
(b) It is cooler.
(c) It is the time of year right before summer.
(d) It is nearly Christmas.

2. Ray considers himself analogous to a Don Quixote of ___________.
(a) Peacefulness
(b) Tenderness
(c) Balance
(d) Independence

3. Where did the girlfriend in #64 finally go in order to kill herself?
(a) The roof
(b) The sidewalk
(c) The kitchen
(d) The bathroom

4. What does Ray feel Japhy would rather be studying instead of what he is doing at the current moment?
(a) Poetry
(b) Rocks
(c) Trees
(d) Religion

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

6. How many men get together at Japhy's small house?
(a) 5
(b) 3
(c) 2
(d) 4

7. In what city in Mexico does Ray decide to have lunch?
(a) Mexico City
(b) Calexico
(c) Tiempo
(d) Tijuana

8. Who does Ray ask for help in buying better hiking equipment?
(a) Alvah
(b) Japhy
(c) Morley
(d) Coughlin

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

10. Where does the truck driver say he will take Ray to in exchange for Ray showing him around Mexico?
(a) Tuscon
(b) Philadelphia
(c) Columbus
(d) Chicago

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

12. What does the other bum on the train tell Ray can be cured by standing on one's head and drinking honey with milk?
(a) Arthritis
(b) Cancer
(c) Allergies
(d) Colds

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

14. Where was Ray staying before he arrives in Los Angeles at the beginning of the story?
(a) Texas
(b) Hawaii
(c) Mexico
(d) Washington

15. In what city does Ray's mother live?
(a) Rocky Mount
(b) Asheville
(c) Pleasanton
(d) Springfield

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of preachers are Japhy and Ray listening to at the beginning of this chapter?

2. When Ray and the truck driver get to the first city destination, where does the truck driver then offer to take Ray?

3. What is the year in which the story begins?

4. Who starts the fire when the men wake up in the morning?

5. Where did they find the camping equipment Ray needed, such as sleeping bags and flashlights?

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