The Hitchhiker

The main character is driving from Brooklyn to

• California

• Colorado

• Oklahoma

• Pennsylvania

What does Mrs. Adams warn the main character about before the trip?

• Falling asleep

• driving fast

• picking up strangers

• all of these

Where did the main character first see the hitchhiker

• on the Pennsylvania Turnpike

• on the brooklyn bridge

• on the pulaski skyway

• none of these

After a lengthy conversation with the main character the store keeper threatens to

• kick him out of his store

• call Sherriff Oakes

• charge him double for gas

• all of these

Why did the main character stop the car before seeing the hitchhiker standing near the train tracks?

• because he ran out of gas

• because he heard someone calling for help

• he had to let the train pass

• none of these

What did the girl hitchhiker say when she first to in the car?

• Mind if I take off my shoes?

• Got anything to eat?

• Gee, nice car!

• none of these

With a girl in the car, the main character crashed his car into a....

• detour sign

• barbed-wire fence

• gas pump

• none of these

When the main character called his mother, who answered the phone?

• his great aunt

• a strange man

• a woman he did not know

• none of these