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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ray think about his life when he begins to contemplate Japhy's choices and outlook?
(a) It's been too internal
(b) It's been wasted
(c) It's been too cloudy
(d) It's been filled with goodness

2. What does Ray take off when he finally sits down for a rest?
(a) Hat
(b) Pants
(c) Socks
(d) Shirt

3. Who wrestles with Ray, leaving large holes in the walls of the house?
(a) Coughlin
(b) Japhy
(c) Morley
(d) Alvah

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

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

6. Where does Ray hike with his new equipment?
(a) Sausalito
(b) Los Angeles
(c) San Francisco
(d) Oakland

7. What is the year in which the story begins?
(a) 1955
(b) 1969
(c) 1965
(d) 1967

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

9. What does Japhy casually mention to Ray, but does not explain to him at first?
(a) Divine oneness
(b) Yoga
(c) Yabyum
(d) Buddhism

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

11. What does the waitress at the restaurant think the men are?
(a) Students
(b) Bums
(c) Hunters
(d) Experts

12. Whose house does Ray want to visit before he leaves town?
(a) Alvah's
(b) Japhy's
(c) Cody's
(d) Sean's

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

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

15. Ray finally realizes you can't _________ a mountain.
(a) fall off
(b) trick
(c) be higher than
(d) hide

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Ray see as being the only decent activity left in the world?

3. What is the name of the girlfriend of the answer to #63?

4. To what city does Ray hitchhike in California, riding with several interesting people along the way?

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

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