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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is singing like Chet Baker in Chapter 19?
(a) Pat McLear.
(b) Ron Blake.
(c) Dave Wain.
(d) Arthur Ma.

2. What is the name of the pet mule of the local settlers in the book?
(a) Robert.
(b) Alf.
(c) Jojo.
(d) Bingo.

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

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

5. What novel does the narrator say he read in the shack with a shrug in Chapter 7?
(a) "Ulysses."
(b) "The End of Time."
(c) "Finnegan's Wake."
(d) "Steppenwolf."

6. How old is the character of Arthur Ma?
(a) 23.
(b) 35.
(c) 41.
(d) 30.

7. The narrator talks of a tree in Chapter 6 that looks like whose face?
(a) God's.
(b) Zeus'.
(c) His own.
(d) Rimbaud's.

8. Who has the narrator planned to meet incognito in San Francisco?
(a) Ramona Swartz.
(b) Lorenz Monsanto.
(c) Cody Pomeray.
(d) George Baso.

9. For how long does the narrator write that he will go crazy in Chapter 8?
(a) Two weeks.
(b) Three days.
(c) Three weeks.
(d) One week.

10. When does the narrator write he had to sweat out a fever in Mexico after the earthquake in Chapter 5?
(a) 1957.
(b) 1959.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1960.

11. What was the narrator's brother's name who had passed away in his childhood?
(a) Andrew.
(b) Billie.
(c) Gerard.
(d) Johnny.

12. Who is yelling in the living room when the narrator wakes up in Chapter 14?
(a) Lex Pascal.
(b) Alejandro Pascal.
(c) Lex Rosston.
(d) Cody Pomeray.

13. What does the narrator write that the fishes of the sea speak in Chapter 7?
(a) Latin.
(b) French.
(c) German.
(d) Breton.

14. What poem has McLear recently written in Chapter 19?
(a) "Beat Bible."
(b) "Dark Blue."
(c) "Lonely Night."
(d) "Dark Brown."

15. What is the narrator carrying in Chapter 3?
(a) A lamp.
(b) A flashlight.
(c) A rope.
(d) A knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the narrator refer to his nightmare he'd had in New York in Chapter 5?

2. Who arrives after the gang at the cabin in Chapter 18?

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

4. What is one of the two names the narrator planned on using as a code name in Chapter 1?

5. What bar does the narrator go to in Chapter 11?

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