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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Dean seek out in Denver?
(a) Chad King.
(b) An old girl friend.
(c) His long-lost father.
(d) Carlo Marx.

3. Who does the travel bureau car that Sal and Dean drive from Denver to Chicago belong to?
(a) An artist.
(b) A car dealer.
(c) A wealthy man.
(d) A mobster.

4. How do Dean and Sal get to Denver in Part 3?
(a) In a travel bureau car.
(b) They take an airplane.
(c) They hitchhike.
(d) By bus.

5. What does Dean tell Sal after their first real argument?
(a) That he does not want to be Sal's friend.
(b) That he is sorry.
(c) That he will not travel with Sal to New York.
(d) That he has been crying.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Marylou's new boyfriend in San Francisco?

2. Where do Sal and Dean's travel companions drop off Sal and Dean on their trip East in Part 3?

3. What does Sal do in Texas to get money to buy gas?

4. Why does the travel bureau car's owner need his car driven to Chicago?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens between Sal and Marylou in San Francisco?

2. What happens when Sal and Dean return the travel bureau car in Chicago?

3. Where do Sal, Dean, and Stan Shepherd travel in Part 4 of On the Road?

4. How do Sal, Dean, and Marylou get money so they can make it from Arizona to California?

5. What does Sal do to put a damper on the friendship with Dean and Camille?

6. What is happening in Dean and Camille's lives when Sal visits them in San Francisco in the spring of 1949?

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

8. Who does Dean meet at a party in New York?

9. What happens to Sal, Dean, and Marylou's car in Texas?

10. Why are the car owner and the couple all too happy to drop Sal and Dean off in Denver?

(see the answer keys)

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