On the Road Quizzes

On the Road Quiz 1

By Lane Davis · Edited by Adam Kissel · Last reviewed August 14, 2007

1 How many journeys does Sal take across the country?

four

six

three

five
2 In real life, Sal Paradise represents:

William Burroughs

Neil Cassady

Jack Kerouac

Allen Ginsburg
3 Dean's first wife is:

Marylou

Inez

Galatea

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

Remi Boncoeur

his family

Slim Gaillard

Dean
5 Sal and Dean's favorite music is:

rock

classical

jazz

boogy-woogy
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

Dunkel

New York

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

Inez

Camille

Lucille

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

San Francisco

Chicago

Mexico

Seattle
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?

Slim Gaillard

God

Sal

Carlo Marx
12 Where does Old Bull Lee live?

New Orleans

Denver

New York

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

The Middle East

Asia

Africa

Europe
14 Why does Kerouac say Ed Dunkel marries Galatea?

she comes from a good family

he is ready to have a family

she has money to go to New York

she is pretty
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?

Marylou

Rita

Lucille

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

a Chevy

a Cadillac

a Hudson

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 New York

San Francisco and New York

Los Angeles and Chicago

Denver and New Jersey
20 A Chicano is:

a Mexican-American person

a town in Colorado

a type of drug

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

drug addict

alcoholic

pimp

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

Ed

Old Bull Lee

Sal

Dean
23 How much money does Hingham owe Sal?

a hundred dollars

five dollars

two dollars

nothing
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 go to school

to become a patriarch

to party

to find Dean

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