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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does Ray spend time with when the rest of the family is gone for the day?
(a) Cats
(b) His old friends
(c) Neighbors
(d) Dogs

2. What mountain are the men about to hike?
(a) Talampais
(b) Desolation
(c) Matterhorn
(d) Muir

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

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

5. Who wants to take a rest when the men are hiking together?
(a) No one
(b) Ray
(c) Japhy
(d) Morley

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

7. How far ahead does Japhy get from Ray and Morley?
(a) 1/2 mile
(b) 10 feet
(c) 3 feet
(d) 1 mile

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

9. Whose shoes does Ray borrow when his feet become very sore?
(a) Warren's
(b) No one's - he goes barefoot
(c) Morley's
(d) Japhy's

10. What does Ray find profound as he sits and contemplates the immensity of the mountains?
(a) His mind
(b) Japhy
(c) Silence
(d) The trees

11. What breaks the silence between Ray and Japhy as they continue to hike the mountain?
(a) Haiku
(b) Bulldozers
(c) A loud crash
(d) Birds

12. From what state does Warren originate?
(a) Oregon
(b) Ohio
(c) California
(d) Indiana

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

14. What does Japhy say he and Ray will follow in order to find their way through the boulders?
(a) Ducks
(b) Intuition
(c) Strings
(d) Signs

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What do the bums tell Ray there is good money to be made prospecting?

3. What does Japhy use to look at the stars?

4. What does the waitress at the restaurant think the men are?

5. How far does Morley decide to walk in order to drain the crankcase which he has forgotten to drain before starting the journey?

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