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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Chinese call it when they do nothing else?
(a) Less do, more think
(b) Do-nothing
(c) No do
(d) Wabi sabi

2. Which university does Ray live near?
(a) SFSU
(b) UC at Berkely
(c) UCLA
(d) UC at Irvine

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

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

5. Who is cantankerous, wanting to stop for frequent rests?
(a) Japhy
(b) Warren
(c) Morley
(d) Ray

6. Who stops by to visit Ray and Alvah when Alvah is out?
(a) Warren
(b) Morley
(c) Japhy
(d) Princess

7. Who decides to remain at the lake in order to sleep for the night instead of continuing the hike?
(a) Morley
(b) No one
(c) Ray
(d) Japhy

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

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

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

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

12. When Ray and the truck driver get to the first city destination, where does the truck driver then offer to take Ray?
(a) Florida
(b) New York
(c) Ohio
(d) North Carolina

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

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

15. To what city do Japhy, Alvah, and Ray travel in order to buy hiking equipment?
(a) Oakland
(b) Monterey
(c) Berkeley
(d) San Francisco

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Japhy casually mention to Ray, but does not explain to him at first?

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

4. What does Japhy say he and Ray will follow in order to find their way through the boulders?

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

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