View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of the "skid row" hotel in which the narrator has been staying in Chapter 1?
(a) The Savoy.
(b) The Mars.
(c) The Redlight.
(d) The Harston.

2. The narrator writes in Chapter 3, "I'm afraid to go down there--I am affrayed in the old _____ sense of being frayed by a whip."
(a) Terrible.
(b) Edmund Spenser.
(c) Edgar Allan Poe.
(d) Sharp.

3. What does the narrator compare the black rocks to in Chapter 4?
(a) Prisons.
(b) Snakes.
(c) Castles.
(d) Vultures.

4. How does the narrator describe the mule in Chapter 6?
(a) Rubinesque.
(b) Martinesque.
(c) Rimbaudesque.
(d) Gauguinesque.

5. In Chapter 1, who does the narrator say he was hiding with in San Francisco upon his arrival?
(a) Bums.
(b) Cody Pomeray.
(c) Ben Fagan.
(d) Dave Wainwright.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator say that Herman Hesse thought he was in Chapter 7?

2. What is Cody's son's name?

3. With whom did the producers of the television show send Jack out after his performance?

4. Which author does the narrator say wrote the inanities of the sea because he wasn't going to do it when he's dead?

5. Where was Jack Kerouac born and raised?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 210 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample