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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What action does Camille take with Dean and Sal in San Francisco?
(a) She kicks them out of the house.
(b) She refuses to let them in after 1:00 a.m.
(c) She sends them out for groceries.
(d) She calls the police on them.

2. Why is Dean unable to work in San Francisco?
(a) He has to tend to Camille.
(b) Because of his frequent out of town trips.
(c) He has injured his hand.
(d) Because of his excessive drinking.

3. Who do Sal, Dean, and Stan meet in a town called Gregoria?
(a) Javier.
(b) Hyman.
(c) Old Bull Lee.
(d) Victor.

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

5. What plans do Sal and Stan make during Sal's last trip to Denver?
(a) To go bar hopping and to pick up women.
(b) To travel to San Francisco.
(c) To travel to Mexico.
(d) To write a book together.

6. What does Sal do to put a rift in his friendship with Dean and Camille?
(a) He takes some of their money.
(b) He reports Dean to the police.
(c) He hurls insults at them.
(d) He does not share any of the sandwiches he made for his trip.

7. Where do Sal, Dean, and Marylou drop Alfred off?
(a) Tucson, Arizona.
(b) Needles, California.
(c) Tulare, California.
(d) Salinas, California.

8. What is Sal and Dean's plan before they take their second trip in 1949?
(a) They will find jobs in San Francisco to earn money for the trip.
(b) They will travel the United States more extensively.
(c) They will earn their college degrees.
(d) They will return to New York before departing.

9. What are Sal and Dean's travel companions' reactions when they overhear Sal and Dean's discussing their car dream?
(a) They are increasingly intrigued.
(b) They are increasingly irritated.
(c) They are increasingly nervous.
(d) They are increasingly bored.

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

11. Who do Sal and Dean travel with on their 1949 trip to Denver?
(a) A homosexual man and a couple.
(b) An Okie and a couple.
(c) A homosexual man and a hitchhiker.
(d) A Mexican and a hobo.

12. What is Dean's job in San Francisco?
(a) He is a bartender.
(b) He is a parking lot attendant.
(c) He is a security guard at an army barracks.
(d) He is selling pressure cookers.

13. Where does Sal decide to travel after his second trip to San Francisco?
(a) New York.
(b) Bakersfield.
(c) Denver.
(d) Chicago.

14. What is the first place Sal visits on his return trip to San Francisco in the spring of 1949?
(a) The Golden Gate Bridge.
(b) Dean and Camille's home.
(c) The army barracks.
(d) Remi Boncoeur's home.

15. What are Sal and Dean's travel companions' reactions to dropping Sal and Dean off at their stop?
(a) They are very ambivalent.
(b) They are very wary.
(c) They are very happy.
(d) They are very disappointed .

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose ranch do Sal and Dean visit in Colorado?

2. In Part 3, what do Sal and Dean's travel companions to Denver want to do in Sacramento?

3. What does Marylou do when she sees Sal on the streets of San Francisco?

4. Why do Sal and Dean's travel companions seem leery of Dean on their 1949 trip to Denver?

5. In Part 3, who takes the wheel of the vehicle that Dean and Sal are riding in while in Sacramento?

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