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?

three

six

four

five
2 In real life, Sal Paradise represents:

Jack Kerouac

William Burroughs

Allen Ginsburg

Neil Cassady
3 Dean's first wife is:

Inez

Camille

Galatea

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

Slim Gaillard

his family

Dean

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

classical

jazz

boogy-woogy

rock
6 What is a Hudson?

a type of drug

a car

a train

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

Testament

Mobile

Dunkel

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

Camille

Rita

Inez

Lucille
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?

John F. Kennedy

Franklin Roosevelt

Dwight Eisenhower

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

God

Slim Gaillard

Carlo Marx

Sal
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

Asia

Africa

Europe
14 Why does Kerouac say Ed Dunkel marries Galatea?

she comes from a good family

she has money to go to New York

she is pretty

he is ready to have a family
15 What does Sal decide the Shrouded Traveler represents?

the road

women

death

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

Marylou

Rita

Camille

Lucille
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?

San Francisco

Maine

Italy

Mexico City
19 Route 66 ran between which two U.S. cities?

San Francisco and New York

Denver and New Jersey

Los Angeles and Chicago

Los Angeles and New York
20 A Chicano is:

a type of drug

a Mexican-American person

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

loser

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

Sal

Dean

Old Bull Lee

Ed
23 How much money does Hingham owe Sal?

nothing

two dollars

five dollars

a hundred 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 go to school

to find Dean

to become a patriarch

to party