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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through September 15th.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of musical instrument does the albino boy, Lonnie, play?
(a) Spoons.
(b) A fiddle.
(c) A guitar.
(d) A banjo.

2. Why doesn't the shooter kill Ed while he's in the river retrieving the overturned aluminum canoe?
(a) He can't see Ed, who is swimming underwater.
(b) The canoe hides Ed from anyone watching from above.
(c) He believes the entire group died in the rapids.
(d) The whitewater is too swift.

3. Why does Lewis tell Ed the story of his lost friend before taking the canoe trip?
(a) As a way of passing along survival skills to his friend.
(b) He is bragging.
(c) To illustrate the danger of the rural areas along the river.
(d) To illustrate the values of rural Southerners.

4. Alone in his office after the canoe trip was proposed, how does Ed get past his depression?
(a) He talks himself out of it.
(b) He gets to work on the day's photo shoot.
(c) He uses deep breathing techniques.
(d) He doesn't; it plagues him for the rest of the day.

5. What does Ed's wife ask him before his departure on the canoe trip?
(a) If he really wants to go.
(b) Whether the photo shoot the day before went well.
(c) Why he agreed to such a crazy trip.
(d) Whether he's up to the physical stress of canoeing.

Short Answer Questions

1. While driving to Oree, what does Ed tell Lewis about himself?

2. What kind of men work at the graphics studio?

3. After falling in the river on the second day of the trip, how does Ed get through the whitewater?

4. After burying the body of the man Lewis shot, why does Bobby go in a canoe with Lewis and Drew go in a canoe with Ed?

5. Why doesn't Lewis kill the man as soon as he and Drew arrive where Bobby and Ed are being held at gunpoint?

(see the answer key)

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