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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) School
(b) Holidays
(c) Television
(d) Books

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

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

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

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

6. Whose house is Ray trying to reach as he is hitchhiking across the United States?
(a) His mother's
(b) His sister's
(c) His brother's
(d) His own

7. What does Alvah later refer to as the activity with Princess, Japhy, Ray and himself ?
(a) Ecstasy
(b) Connection
(c) Bliss
(d) Orgy

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

9. Where did they find the camping equipment Ray needed, such as sleeping bags and flashlights?
(a) Army Navy store
(b) REI
(c) Salvation Army
(d) Goodwill

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

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

12. What is the name of the girlfriend of the answer to #63?
(a) Leia
(b) Rosie
(c) Anne
(d) Princess

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who decides to remain at the lake in order to sleep for the night instead of continuing the hike?

2. In what city does Ray's mother live?

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

4. What is Ray concerned about as he and Japhy begin to go on a hike together?

5. What mountain are the men about to hike?

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