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Read the excerpt from “The Railroad Earth.”It was the fantastic drowse and drum hum of lum mum afternoon nathin' to do, ole Frisco with end of land sadness——the people——the alley full of trucks and cars of businesses nearabouts and nobody knew or far from cared who I was all my life three thousand five hundred miles from birth-O opened up and at last belonged to me in Great America.Which best describes the effect of the author’s word choice?

It portrays the dialect used by the people of ole Frisco.

It creates a musical, rhythmic quality.

It details the author’s hectic lifestyle.

It provides information about the author’s background.

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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.

Which line from “The Railroad Earth” best illustrates Jack Kerouac’s nonstandard or invented words?

But it was that beautiful cut of clouds I could always see above the little S.P. alley, puffs floating by from Oakland or the Gate of Marin to the north or San Jose south

or some of them I can now as I leave hear beginning to disfawdle to wake in their rooms and with their moans and yorks and scrapings

I'm going down the steps to work, glance to check time of watch with clerk cage clock.

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

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.

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.”I'd take walks up Harrison and the boomcrash of truck traffic towards the glorious girders of the Oakland Bay Bridge that you could see after climbing Harrison Hill a little like radar machine of eternity in the sky, huge, in the blue, by pure clouds crossed, gulls, idiot cars streaking to destinations on its undinal boom across shmoshwaters flocked up by winds and news of San Rafael storms and flash boats.The syntax of the excerpt helps to create a feeling of

mystery.

movement.

disappointment.

tranquility.

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”

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

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

I put the light out on the sad dab mad grub little diving room and hustle out into the fog of the flow

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

I had heard that peanut butter and lettuce contained all the vitamins you should want

But it was that beautiful cut of clouds I could always see above the little S.P. alley

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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