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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 6, 7 and 8.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dean want his friends to help him with?
(a) Learning to write.
(b) Finding a job.
(c) Teaching him Spanish.
(d) Helping him move.

2. Who writes to Sal about the possibility of hopping an ocean liner in San Francisco?
(a) Remi Boncoeur.
(b) Old Bull Lee.
(c) Dean Moriarty.
(d) Mississippi Gene.

3. What does Sal learn when he meets up with Chad King in Denver?
(a) That Dean Moriarty and Carlo Marx had already left for San Francisco.
(b) That Dean and Carlo are no longer friends.
(c) That Chad King, Carlo Marx and Dean Moriarty did not want to be friends with Sal.
(d) That he and Carlo Marx and Dean Moriarty are no longer friends,

4. What New York hitchhiker does Sal meet in Des Moines?
(a) Mississippi Gene .
(b) Big Slim Hazard.
(c) "The Ghost."
(d) Eddie.

5. Where is Sal Paradise living at the beginning of On the Road?
(a) With Carlo Marx in Denver.
(b) With his aunt in New Jersey.
(c) With Roland Major in Denver.
(d) With his brother in Virginia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What job does Dean find after Sal first meets him in New York?

2. Where was Dean Moriarty living before he was first introduced to Sal Paradise in New York?

3. Who was born on the road?

4. Who thinks Sal should not travel out West?

5. Why does Sal end his ride with the brothers from Minnesota before their final destination?

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