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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Katz planning to do in Franklin?
(a) Go shopping
(b) Idle in town for several days
(c) Find a woman
(d) Go to the movies

2. What do Bryson and Katz plan to do after eight days of hiking?
(a) Go to a bar
(b) Go to a movie
(c) Call home
(d) Shower, watch TV, sleep, and do laundry

3. Who maps out the actual paths and begins construction?
(a) Washington Irving
(b) Myron Avery
(c) Martin A. Berry
(d) Charles Whitaker

4. In what year is the Appalachian Trail formally completed?
(a) 1963
(b) 1952
(c) 1925
(d) 1937

5. What is Bryson's joking impression of God's plan for him?
(a) Not realize he reached the end of AT, hike a thousand miles in to Canada
(b) To be treed by a bear and starve to death in the tree
(c) Fall from a cliff 100 yards before the end of the trail
(d) Spend a little time with "each of the most stupid people on earth"

Short Answer Questions

1. What happens three or four times a day as Bryson and Katz hike the trail?

2. What surprises Bryson about his equipment shopping trip?

3. What is the physical condition of Bryson and Katz when they reach Clingman's Dome?

4. What is Bryson afraid is staring at him when he sees two glowing eyes in the darkness?

5. What does Bryson consider a miracle about the Appalachian Trail?

(see the answer key)

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