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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ray do once everyone else goes to bed for the night?
(a) Cries
(b) Meditates in the woods
(c) Drinks all the wine
(d) Sleeps in the house

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

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

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

5. After Princess leaves, Japhy comes over to Alvah's house with a guest. Who is it?
(a) Coughlin
(b) Sean
(c) Rheinhold
(d) Morley

Short Answer Questions

1. How many men get together at Japhy's small house?

2. Ray considers himself analogous to a Don Quixote of ___________.

3. How far ahead does Japhy get from Ray and Morley?

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

5. Who starts the fire when the men wake up in the morning?

Short Essay Questions

1. How well prepared does Ray feel at the end of his shopping excursion with Japhy?

2. What does Ray ask Japhy to help him do once Ray receives money?

3. Describe the house where Ray Smith is staying.

4. What is the realization Ray has when he watches the way Japhy descends the mountain?

5. Describe the character of Henry Morley.

6. When the waitress asks the men where they will be hiking, what do the men reply?

7. Where is Japhy and Ray's campsite for the night?

8. Describe the character of Japhy Ryder.

9. List the four men who sit together at Japhy's small home, drinking wine together and discussing poetry.

10. Describe the way Japhy decides to descend the mountain.

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