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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3: Chapter 4 - 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What have people always told Steinbeck about his wanderlust?
(a) He will grow out of it.
(b) Everybody has it to some degree.
(c) He needs to indulge it.
(d) He is crazy to even think about it.

2. What is the source of trouble Steinbeck runs into while trying to cross the border into Canada?
(a) He has forgotten his birth certificate.
(b) He needs a passport.
(c) He needs Charley's rabies vaccination documents to return to the U.S.
(d) He cannot take his liquor into Canada.

3. In what direction does Steinbeck head on his first day?
(a) Northwest
(b) Southeast
(c) Southwest
(d) Northeast

4. What urge has Steinbeck felt all his life?
(a) The urge to be an athlete.
(b) The urge to be somewhere else.
(c) The urge to be an artist.
(d) The urge to be someone else.

5. To what does Steinbeck compare the futility of trying to control a trip?
(a) Trying to control a marriage
(b) Trying to swim upstream
(c) Trying to herd cats
(d) Trying to shoot fish in a barrel

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Steinbeck re-anchor his boat?

2. Who are the only ones who will understand the inability to control a trip?

3. What is the genre of this book?

4. What happens to the neighboring boats after Steinbeck cuts the rope holding them together?

5. What quality do the people of #126 have that is so appealing to Steinbeck?

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