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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ray consider to be a waste and a destroyer of creative thinking and individuality?
(a) Television
(b) School
(c) Holidays
(d) Books

2. What is the name of the professional truck driver Ray meets?
(a) Allen Booney
(b) Trucker Bob
(c) Beaudry
(d) Beau

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

4. Ray thinks Buddhism and Christianity truly are aspects of _________ reality.
(a) a single
(b) universal
(c) literal
(d) opposite

5. Who is noted to have enormous hiking endurance?
(a) Ray
(b) Warren
(c) Japhy
(d) Morley

6. With whom does Ray live in a ramshackle house near the University?
(a) Joseph
(b) Alvah
(c) Warren
(d) Japhy

7. What does Japhy claim to have learned about from Ray?
(a) Meditating
(b) Hiking
(c) Language
(d) Life

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

9. Who offers to give Ray his old sleeping bag cover?
(a) Warren
(b) Japhy
(c) The store owner
(d) Alvah

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

11. Ray wishes he could have taught the girlfriend in #64 about the illusory nature of _________.
(a) Suffering
(b) Happiness
(c) Reality
(d) Life

12. What color of eyes does Princess have?
(a) Green
(b) Gray
(c) Violet
(d) Blue

13. Did Morley's car freeze as it was expected to?
(a) No
(b) Yes, and the transmission cracked
(c) Yes, but the tires deflated
(d) Yes, but nothing happened

14. What kind of preachers are Japhy and Ray listening to at the beginning of this chapter?
(a) Christian
(b) Quaker
(c) Jewish
(d) Jehovah's Witnesses

15. How far does Morley decide to walk in order to drain the crankcase which he has forgotten to drain before starting the journey?
(a) 4 miles
(b) 6 miles roundtrip
(c) 8 miles roundtrip
(d) 10 miles

Short Answer Questions

1. What particular day is it when Ray wakes up the next morning at his mother's house?

2. Who is given more than half of the food during the dinnertime hour?

3. Where does Ray go to when he catches a train, hobo-style after leaving Cody's house?

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

5. Whose shoes does Ray borrow when his feet become very sore?

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