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Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.”It's all in California, it's all a sea, I swim out of it in afternoons of sun hot meditation in my jeans with head on handkerchief on brakeman’s lantern or (if not working) on books, I look up at blue sky of perfect lost purity and feel the warp of wood of old America beneath me Which best describes how Kerouac creates rhythm in this excerpt?

He uses repetition.

He uses made-up words.

He uses line breaks.

He uses descriptive language.

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Why is “The Railroad Earth” considered both poetry and prose?

It contains poetic elements but is much longer than typical poetry.

It is conventional in structure but has the detailed descriptions characteristic of poetry.

It is a flowing narrative that has poetic rhythm but no line breaks.

It contains internal rhyme schemes but uses them to describe a nonfiction story.

Which line from “The Railroad Earth” best illustrates the influence of jazz music on Jack Kerouac’s style?

old faces looking up over rimless spectacles bought in some West Virginia or Florida or Liverpool England pawnshop long before I was born

the reading rooms tick tock bigclock with creak chair and slantboards

I hear far off in the sense of coming night that engine calling our mountains

anyway I'll be learning eventually to like the railroad and Sherman will like me some day

Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.”And the Bible on my desk next to the peanut butter, the lettuce, the raisin bread, the crack in the plaster, the stiff-with-old dust lace drape now no longer laceable. . . . My little room at 6 in the comfy dawn (at 4:30) and before me all that time, that fresh-eyed time for a little coffee to boil water on my hot plate, throw some coffee in, stir it, French style, slowly carefully pour it in my white tin cup, throw sugar in. . . . What does this excerpt suggest about the narrator?

He lives in miserable conditions and greatly suffers.

He spends too much money on food and coffee.

He is content even though he lives in a run-down building.

He has overslept and as a result will be late for work.

Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.”oldtimers of the telegraph wired wood Frisco in the fog gray top time sitting in their brown sunk sea and will be there when this afternoon my face flushed from the sun, which at eight'll flame out and make sunbaths for us at Redwood, they'll still be here the color of paste in the green underworld and still reading the same editorial over again and wont understand where I've been or what for or what.——I have to get out of there or suffocate, out of Third street or become a wormWhich word best describes the narrator’s attitude toward the old-timers in the lobby?

resentment

envy

pity

distrust

Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.”So there I am in dawn in my dim cell——2½ hours to go till the time I have to stick my railroad watch in my jean watchpocket and cut out Within these lines, where is the most appropriate place for a pause?

after “dawn”

after “cell”

after “railroad”

after “jean”

Jack Kerouac’s “The Railroad Earth” is best described as

romantic poetry.

modern fiction.

conventional narrative.

spontaneous prose.

Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.” the door knocks and it's the desk keeper of the flop hotel with silver rims and white hair and clean clothes and sickly potbelly said he was from Rocky Mount and looked like yes, he had been desk clerk of the Nash Buncome Association hotel down there in 50 successive heatwave summersThe excerpt best illustrates Jack Kerouac’s use of

repetition.

invented words.

dialogue.

minimal punctuation.

Based on “The Railroad Earth,” Jack Kerouac would most likely agree with which statement?

Writing should depict purely fictional characters and events.

Writing should be compressed and to the point.

Writing should be spontaneous and unconventional.

Writing should describe only the beautiful aspects of nature.

Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.”——Ah me how but it was a hell and now I had the whole thing to myself, and make my raisin toast by sitting it on a little wire I'd especially bent to place over the hot plateWithin these lines, where is the most appropriate place for a pause?

after “Ah”

after “myself”

after “toast”

after “bent”

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