Beat Movement Quiz

This quiz is over On The Road and the first five class lectures. All the answers to the questions are in the novel or the lectures. Take the quiz and then click on submit when ready to send. Be sure to give your name and a valid email address. I will remove the quiz link no earlier than midnight Monday.

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(1) The character Dean Moriarty is based on which one of the following people?

Allen Ginsberg
Jack Kerouac
William Burroughs
Neal Cassady

 

(2) The character Sal Paradise is based on which one of the following people?

William Burroughs
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
Neal Cassady

 

(3) On The Road is set in

the late 1940s and on.
the late 1950s and on.
the 1960s and on.
the time period of 1914 to 1931.

 

(4) The character Carlo Marx is based on which one of the following people?

Karl Marx
Jack Kerouac
Allen Ginsberg
William Burroughs

 

(5) Sal's "greatest ride" of his life takes place

in a Cadillac in New York.
on a Harley Davidson motorcycle in Texas.
on a truck, with a flatboard at the back, in Nebraska.
in a Mustang convertible in California.

 

(6) What is the name of Sal Paradise's San Francisco friend?

George
John
Remi
Kurt

 

(7) What is the name of the woman Sal meets in the LA bus station?

Trisha
Delores
Terry
Cynthia

 

(8) At one point in On The Road, Sal describes Dean as

too conservative.
an immoral jerk.
the Holy Goof.
poison.

 

(9) At the end of On The Road, Sal says goodbye to Dean right before

Sal goes into rehab.
Sal goes to his mother's home.
Sal goes to a Duke Ellington concert.
Sal goes back to bed.

 

(10) How does conventional culture intrude on the lifestyles of the main characters in On The Road? Write a short paragraph in the textbox below.