On the Road Quizzes

On the Road Quiz 1

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

three

five

four
2 In real life, Sal Paradise represents:
Neil Cassady

William Burroughs

Jack Kerouac

Allen Ginsburg
3 Dean's first wife is:
Marylou

Camille

Inez

Galatea
4 Sal meets a hitchhiker named Eddie who reminds Sal of whom?
Dean

his family

Slim Gaillard

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

jazz

rock

classical
6 What is a Hudson?
a car

a type of drug

a dance move

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

Testament

New York

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?
Seattle

San Francisco

Chicago

Mexico
10 Which President's inauguration do Sal and Dean see?
Dwight Eisenhower

Franklin Roosevelt

John F. Kennedy

Harry Truman
11 Who does Dean compare Shearing, the jazz pianist, to?
God

Sal

Carlo Marx

Slim Gaillard
12 Where does Old Bull Lee live?
Denver

New Orleans

New York

San Francisco
13 Carlo Marx takes a trip overseas. Where does he go?
Asia

The Middle East

Africa

Europe
14 Why does Kerouac say Ed Dunkel marries Galatea?
she is pretty

he is ready to have a family

she comes from a good family

she has money to go to New York
15 What does Sal decide the Shrouded Traveler represents?
death

women

the American West

the road
16 Who does Dean try to get Sal to sleep with while he watches?
Camille

Marylou

Lucille

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

a Chevy

a Cadillac

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

Mexico City

Maine

San Francisco
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 Mexican-American person

a type of drug

a Mexican person

a town in Colorado
21 Terry has a fight with Sal in Los Angeles because she thinks he is a:
alcoholic

drug addict

pimp

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

Sal

Dean

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

five dollars

nothing

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

money

enlightenment

none of the above
25 Why does Sal move to Denver at the beginning of Part Three?
to find Dean

to party

to become a patriarch

to go to school