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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 is the name of Steinbeck's boat?
(a) East of Eden
(b) Fayre Eleyne
(c) Smooth Sailing
(d) Rocinante
2. What does Steinbeck invite the Canadian family to do?
(a) Sing around a campfire
(b) Have dinner with him
(c) View the inside of his camper
(d) Play cards
3. What is Steinbeck's purpose for taking the trip?
(a) Get out of town for awhile
(b) Find old college buddies
(c) Revisit the country he once knew
(d) Visit national monuments
4. What does Steinbeck see when he takes Charley for a walk?
(a) A Little League baseball game
(b) Two lovers in a car
(c) The Aurora Borealis
(d) A fire at a gas station
5. Who wants to accompany Steinbeck on the trip?
(a) Steinbeck's lawyer
(b) Mrs. Steinbeck
(c) Steinbeck's son
(d) A neighbor boy
Short Answer Questions
1. How do New Englanders talk?
2. What kind of dog does Charley encounter at the rest area?
3. What is the genre of this book?
4. In this book, Steinbeck's style is neither ______________ in nature nor completely ________________.
5. What does Steinbeck learn about all the writing materials he packs?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Steinbeck's explanation for the junk yards and garbage dumps surrounding the small towns and villages through which he passes?
2. What have older people always told Steinbeck?
3. What does Steinbeck encounter that particularly unnerves him?
4. Describe Deer Isle.
5. What are Steinbeck's requirements for this state of journeying--or bumdom as he calls it?
6. What happens to disrupt the launch of Steinbeck's trip?
7. What urge has Steinbeck felt all his life?
8. What does Steinbeck's 13-year-old neighbor boy symbolize?
9. What misgivings does Steinbeck experience as the day of his departure approaches?
10. Describe Steinbeck's encounter with the young sailor.
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