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1. Of course, we'll begin with Jack Kerouac's prototypical road trip novel, "On the Road". In what interesting fashion was Kerouac's roman a clef novel first written in 1951?
2. In which 1961 road trip memoir did John Howard Griffin describe his time wandering around the American South after spending hours preparing, with special drugs and a UV lamp?
3. In which 1903 novel do the gold miners Hal, Charles, and Mercedes make a doomed journey through the Yukon which ends abruptly on a sheet of ice?
4. Appropriately enough, this road trip novel takes its title from a passage in "The Odyssey", and like many of its author's works, takes place in Jefferson, Mississippi. In which novel do the Bundrens journey to bury their mother Addie?
5. Which contemporary author of "Lila: An Inquiry into Morals" described his philosophical conversations with son Chris in a book subtitled "An Inquiry into Values", his "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"?
6. Another classic American road trip features a somewhat wetter road: the Mississippi River! The book is "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn", but what's the name of the escaped slave who is Huck's companion on the journey?
7. This author wasn't coy about the title of his 2006 novel set after an apocalyptic event, in which a father and his son "carry the fire" to the sea. Which author of Westerns like "All the Pretty Horses" and "No Country for Old Men" won a Pulitzer for his book "The Road"?
8. After learning that his beloved Anne Stanton has been carrying on with his boss Willie Stark, Jack Burden takes the ultimate road trip to California to get away from it all. He ends up philosophizing about a "Great Twitch" to rationalize the situation.
In what 1946 novel, set in a thinly-veiled parallel to Huey Long's Louisiana, do those events occur?
9. If Jack Kerouac isn't the greatest road trip author in American literature, then his biggest competition might be this other heavyweight, who wrote about a trip across the country with his poodle Charley. In his best-known novel, the Joads trek from the Oklahoma Dust Bowl to California in search of work. Who is this Nobel Prize-winning author?
10. "On the Road" again? Not quite. But there's another Beat Generation novel about a trip around the US, this time featuring Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters in a starring role. What's the name of that book by Tom Wolfe?
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