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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do Sal and Dean discuss while traveling from Sacramento to Denver?
(a) Their sexual encounters.
(b) Their dreams.
(c) Their friends.
(d) Their travel plans.

2. Who does Sal meet in Denver on his third trip West?
(a) Chad.
(b) Roland.
(c) Stan.
(d) Eddie.

3. What happens in a restaurant in Denver when Sal and Dean are en route to New York?
(a) They make plans to travel to Canada.
(b) They stiff the server with the bill.
(c) They pick up women.
(d) Sal and Dean have their first outright argument.

4. How does Hal Hingham assist Sal and the others in Tucson?
(a) He lets them take a shower at his house.
(b) He lets them spend the night at his house.
(c) He buys them dinner.
(d) He gives them five dollars.

5. Where do Dean and Sal stay in Detroit?
(a) At a posh hotel.
(b) With a friend.
(c) At a YMCA.
(d) Skid row.

6. What news does Dean share with Stan and Sal while in Mexico?
(a) Dean has a divorce from Camille.
(b) Dean wants to extend their trip to Guatemala.
(c) Dean's father is being released from prison.
(d) Camille is going to have another child.

7. What is the name of the horse that Sal bets on?
(a) Old Pops.
(b) Big Brown.
(c) Holy Goof.
(d) Daddy-O.

8. What news does Sam Brady deliver to Dean?
(a) That Miles Davis will be performing in Denver.
(b) That no one in his family cares to have any interaction with Dean or his father.
(c) That Dean can live with him.
(d) That he used to date Camille.

9. What does Sal consider a sign that he and Dean need to leave Denver?
(a) When their hotel room catches on fire.
(b) When Sam Brady delivers the news that the family wants no interaction with Dean or his father.
(c) When they see a lunar eclipse.
(d) When they see a white horse on the side of the road.

10. What is one of the things Sal and Dean discuss before Dean departs West to see Camille and his children?
(a) That maybe Sal could rent a room at Dean and Camille's house.
(b) That Sal, Dean, and Dean's father could take a trip together.
(c) That Sal could marry Camille after she and Dean get a divorce.
(d) That Dean and his family and Sal and his future family could live on the same street.

11. What is Sal and Dean's dream about while driving in a car?
(a) That they can escape their problems if they drive fast enough.
(b) That the car is a time machine.
(c) That they drive up a ramp and become airborne.
(d) That they take a giant scythe and chop down trees and mountains.

12. Where does Dean take Sal to stay in San Francisco?
(a) At Marylou's new apartment.
(b) At Camille's house.
(c) At Remi Boncoeur's house.
(d) At the hotel where Roland Major is staying.

13. Where does Old Bull take Sal in New Orleans?
(a) To Bourbon Street.
(b) To the racetrack.
(c) To an abandoned warehouse.
(d) To a bayou.

14. Where do Sal and Dean's travel companions drop off Sal and Dean on their trip East in Part 3?
(a) Cheyenne.
(b) Denver.
(c) Des Moines.
(d) Tucson.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Sal and Dean do while bar-hopping in Denver?

2. What does Dean do when he, Sal, and Marylou arrive in San Francisco?

3. How do Dean and Sal get to Denver in Part 3?

4. What does Old Bull think is a sign from Sal's deceased father?

5. What is the first place Sal visits on his return trip to San Francisco in the spring of 1949?

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