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

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

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

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

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 own
(d) His brother's

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. Where did they find the camping equipment Ray needed, such as sleeping bags and flashlights?

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does a transient in Riverside warn Ray about once he arrives?

2. What do the bums of San Francisco tell Ray there is great money to be made in doing?

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

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

5. How do Japhy and Ray find Morley again?

6. Describe the character of Ray Smith as he arrives in Los Angeles.

7. What does Ray seem to believe about the ideas of Buddhism and Christianity?

8. What happens later in the night which upsets Alvah, and rightfully so?

9. What are some of the ways Japhy shows he is generous?

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

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