The Hitchhiker Test Study Guide

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What is the setting of the story?

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on the highway, early 1940s

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Why does Adams state facts about himself at the beginning of the play?

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To show that he is sane. (not crazy)

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When does the flashback in the story start?

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Six days ago I left Brooklyn to drive to California…

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What do these excerpts foreshadow? (1) Promise me you’ll be extra careful. Don’t fall asleep or drive fast or pick up any strangers on the road. (2) I was in excellent spirits – drive ahead, even the loneliness seemed like a lark. But I reckoned without him.

Back

The appearance of the hitchhiker.

Front

Where does Adams see the hitchhiker?

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On the Brooklyn Bridge, standing beside a barbed-wire fence, and outside the Navajo reservation.

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How is the word 'distinctly' used in the sentence: 'I could see him quite distinctly – the bag, the cap, even the spots of fresh rain spattered over his shoulders'?

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It is used in the sense of 'clearly.' As in he could see him very easily.

ex-(With his new glasses, Omar could see every street sign distinctly.)

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Why is it important that Adams first sees the hitchhiker on the Brooklyn Bridge.

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The hitchhiker is introduced.

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The train was coming closer. I could hear its bell, its cry its whistle crying! (then his car stalls no the tracks)

This is an example of....

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SUSPENSE!

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Which statement best summarizes the play’s resolution?

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Adams ponders his own death. (He questions whether he is alive or dead)

The story leaves the reader with a lot of questions

Front

The root junct as in junction means....

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to join together or attach - as in conjunction – (n.) a word that joins two or more sentences and adjunct – (n.) something attached to another