The Hitchhiker Quiz

The main character is driving from Brooklyn to...

• California

• Colorado

• Oklahoma

• Pennsylvania

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

• falling asleep

• driving fast

• picking up strangers

• all of the above

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CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

Where did the main character first see the hitchhiker?

• on the Pennsylvania Turnpike

• on the Brooklyn Bridge

• on the Pulaski Skyway

• none of these

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CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

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

• because he had to let the train pass

• none of these

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CCSS.RL.8.1

CCSS.RL.8.3

What did the girl say when she first got in the car?

• "Mind if I take off my shoes?"

• "Got anything to eat?"

• "Gee, nice car!"

• none of these

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CCSS.RL.8.3

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

• detour sign

• barbed-wire fence

• gas pump

• none of these

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CCSS.RL.6.3

When the main character called his mother, who answered the phone?7

• his great aunt

• a strange man

• a woman he did not know

• none of these

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CCSS.RI. 9-10.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.1

What was strange about the hitchhiker

• He was covered in blood

• He was screaming in Latin

• He kept impossibly showing up

• He was a dream

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CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.7.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

CCSS.RL.9-10.4

At the end of the radio play, Adams realizes that six days earlier he

• lost his mother to a fatal disease.
• killed the hitchhiker on the train tracks.
• died in an automobile accident in Brooklyn.
• went insane and abandoned his responsibilities.

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CCSS.RL.7.10

CCSS.RL.7.5

CCSS.RL.8.10

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.8.7

What point of view is "The Hitchhiker" told in?

• third person limited

• third person omniscient

• first person

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4