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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapters 9 and 10.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Sal feel about the friendship between Dean Moriarty and his friend?
(a) He feels left out.
(b) He feels indifferent.
(c) He feels like the center of attention.
(d) He feels invigorated.

2. Where does Sal go with Babe Rawlins in a mining town outside of Denver?
(a) To an opera.
(b) To an abandoned mine.
(c) To a friend's house.
(d) To a bar.

3. Which of the flat bed truck riders stays with Sal in Cheyenne?
(a) Mississippi Gene.
(b) Roland Major.
(c) Big Slim Hazard.
(d) Montana Slim.

4. What does Dean inform his friends about at a party where Carlo is reading poetry?
(a) He is getting a divorce from Marylou.
(b) He wants to attend school to become a writer.
(c) He wants to take a trip to Mexico.
(d) He is breaking up with Camille.

5. Why doesn't Sal show up for the first day of his job in Denver?
(a) He is planning on going on the road again with Dean.
(b) He would rather live off of Roland's generosity.
(c) He overslept.
(d) He met a woman.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Rita Bettencourt described?

2. Who writes to Sal about the possibility of hopping an ocean liner in San Francisco?

3. Where is Sal Paradise living at the beginning of On the Road?

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

5. Where are the two boys from Minnesota headed in their flat bed truck?

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