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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 9, 10 and 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Sal realize about his relationship with Lucille during his return stay in New York City?
(a) It cannot work because she is so irresponsible.
(b) It cannot work because she insists on changing him.
(c) It will work because Lucille has a zeal for traveling.
(d) It is what he desires because she can ground him.

2. What does Sal feel when he passes the fields near Bakersfield in Part 2?
(a) He feels pangs of guilt.
(b) He feels confusion.
(c) He feels nostalgic.
(d) He feels hungry.

3. Who was born on the road?
(a) Sal Paradise.
(b) Carlo Marx.
(c) Chad King.
(d) Dean Moriarty.

4. What does Dean do when he, Sal, and Marylou arrive in San Francisco?
(a) He goes out to hear a jazz musician.
(b) He abandons them without any money to see Camille.
(c) He has a fight with Sal.
(d) He does not want to stay in San Francisco and travels to Denver.

5. How does Sal get the money to get from Denver to San Francisco?
(a) He pawns his watch.
(b) Roland Major gives him some money.
(c) He panhandles to earn the money.
(d) Sal's aunt wires him the money.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Dean referring to when he tells Sal that "God has arrived"?

2. Who does Sal see that makes him feel that he is closer to Denver?

3. Who did Dean, Marylou, and Ed Dunkel leave in Tucson and why?

4. What does Old Bull Lee warn Sal about?

5. In Des Moines, Sal experiences the distinction of the East of his youth and the West of his __________________. (fill in the blank)

(see the answer key)

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