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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 The Dead Man at Grandview Point.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Abbey calls the rampant development of national parks
(a) Nationalism
(b) Industrial Tourism
(c) Reclamation
(d) Restitution

2. Besides money, a reason for developing the parks is
(a) To explore the minerals and ores in the ground
(b) The cities are growing rapidly
(c) To allow closer inspection of nature
(d) To accommodate a burgeoning population

3. When a person is in the desert long enough he learns to
(a) Smell water
(b) Hear running water miles away
(c) Know by the insect patterns where water is
(d) Follow animals to water

4. Visiting Moab on Wednesdays, Edward Abbey deduces that the men in the beer joints have been
(a) Active and working alone all day
(b) In town for most of the day
(c) Are poor miners
(d) Working as park rangers all day

5. Thunderstorms come to the high desert in
(a) The first of October
(b) September 15
(c) The middle of spring
(d) July and August

Short Answer Questions

1. Abbey had no fear of drowning in the Havasupai Canyon floor's stream because

2. Abbey's reaction to the man's manner of death is one of

3. Edward Abbey's description of a thunderstorm in the desert is

4. Abbey feels if you have reached the point of needing moisture from the barrel cactus

5. Abbey is polemic about

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