The Dharma Bums Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 105 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

The Dharma Bums Test | Mid-Book Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 105 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. Where is the other bum from, as Ray finds out during their conversation?
(a) Florida
(b) California
(c) Maine
(d) Ohio

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

6. Where does Ray decide he will sleep instead of on a bed inside?
(a) The ground outside
(b) In the car
(c) A tent in the backyard
(d) A couch on the porch

7. What does Japhy do as they descend the mountain that scares Ray as he watches?
(a) Screams at the top of his lungs
(b) Strips naked
(c) Sings
(d) Runs down the mountain

8. How much were the flannel shirts Ray buys?
(a) 1 dollar
(b) 50 cents
(c) 5 dollars
(d) 25 cents

9. Who is given more than half of the food during the dinnertime hour?
(a) Morley
(b) Ray
(c) Japhy
(d) No one

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

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

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

13. What does Ray purchase in order to share with the other hobo on the train with him?
(a) Food
(b) Marijuana
(c) Wine
(d) Water

14. 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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How far off is Morley when they hear his yodeling in the morning?

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

3. Ray considers Los Angeles to be __________________.

4. Ray wishes he could have taught the girlfriend in #64 about the illusory nature of _________.

5. Whose life is considered to be on the good path?

(see the answer keys)

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