On the Road Quizzes

On the Road Quiz 1

1 How many journeys does Sal take across the country?
six

five

four

three
2 In real life, Sal Paradise represents:
Jack Kerouac

William Burroughs

Neil Cassady

Allen Ginsburg
3 Dean's first wife is:
Galatea

Inez

Marylou

Camille
4 Sal meets a hitchhiker named Eddie who reminds Sal of whom?
his family

Remi Boncoeur

Slim Gaillard

Dean
5 Sal and Dean's favorite music is:
boogy-woogy

classical

rock

jazz
6 What is a Hudson?
a car

a dance move

a type of drug

a train
7 What is the town that Sal's relatives live in and where Dean picks him up to go to San Francisco?
Mobile

New York

Testament

Dunkel
8 What is the name of the girl Sal thinks about marrying before leaving her to go with Dean to California?
Inez

Camille

Rita

Lucille
9 On their fourth journey, where do Sal and Dean go?
Mexico

Seattle

Chicago

San Francisco
10 Which President's inauguration do Sal and Dean see?
Franklin Roosevelt

Harry Truman

Dwight Eisenhower

John F. Kennedy
11 Who does Dean compare Shearing, the jazz pianist, to?
Slim Gaillard

God

Sal

Carlo Marx
12 Where does Old Bull Lee live?
New Orleans

Denver

San Francisco

New York
13 Carlo Marx takes a trip overseas. Where does he go?
The Middle East

Europe

Asia

Africa
14 Why does Kerouac say Ed Dunkel marries Galatea?
he is ready to have a family

she has money to go to New York

she is pretty

she comes from a good family
15 What does Sal decide the Shrouded Traveler represents?
women

the road

death

the American West
16 Who does Dean try to get Sal to sleep with while he watches?
Marylou

Camille

Rita

Lucille
17 What kind of car do Dean and Sal drive from Denver to Chicago in seventeen hours?
a Hudson

a Cadillac

a Chevy

none of these
18 On their third journey, where do Dean and Sal want to eventually end up?
Maine

San Francisco

Italy

Mexico City
19 Route 66 ran between which two U.S. cities?
Los Angeles and Chicago

Los Angeles and New York

Denver and New Jersey

San Francisco and New York
20 A Chicano is:
a town in Colorado

a Mexican person

a type of drug

a Mexican-American person
21 Terry has a fight with Sal in Los Angeles because she thinks he is a:
pimp

loser

alcoholic

drug addict
22 Who wins the running and jumping contests at Old Bull Lee's house?
Ed

Dean

Old Bull Lee

Sal
23 How much money does Hingham owe Sal?
a hundred dollars

nothing

two dollars

five dollars
24 What does the group hope to find as they drive through the Louisiana swamp?
a jazz club

enlightenment

money

none of the above
25 Why does Sal move to Denver at the beginning of Part Three?
to become a patriarch

to find Dean

to party

to go to school