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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does William describe Cape Porpoise, Maine?
(a) Suburban paradise.
(b) Urban and sophisticated.
(c) White picket fence village.
(d) Messy and run down.

2. What is the Boston University student studying in Kennebunkport, Maine?
(a) Marketing of tourism.
(b) Marine biology.
(c) Old gristmill on Kennebunkport River.
(d) History of the town.

3. How old is Marion?
(a) Sixty.
(b) Eighty.
(c) Fifty.
(d) Seventy-five.

4. What does William find in the forest of the Cascades in Oregon that he places in a pail to photograph later?
(a) Banana slug.
(b) Snake.
(c) Beetle.
(d) Butterfly.

5. Where did William buy The Sacred Pipe, by Black Elk?
(a) Denver.
(b) Boston.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) Miami.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of town is Gassaway, West Virginia?

2. What does William have to do with Ghost Dancing in Grand Forks, North Dakota?

3. What is Marion an expert on?

4. What is the Algonquian name for the river that means "white shining"?

5. What country was Robert Owen from?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Tom sell his maple syrup?

2. Is William disappointed with the changes he sees in the Newport, Rhode Island, area?

3. Describe William's experience with Alice Venable Middleton on Smith Island.

4. What is William's state of mind when he is traveling through New England?

5. What does William discover about Marion Horner Robie?

6. How does Alba Bartholomew feel when he is hang gliding?

7. How does William describe the town of New Harmony?

8. How did Duncan McDougal save the Astor fur trading post from destruction by the Indians?

9. Describe what William buys at the city market in Annapolis.

10. What causes William to worry that he wants to give up on his trip and head for home when he is in Oregon?

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