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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 4: Touching the Divine, Chapter 13.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who was the Kansas City AP bureau chief that first coined the phrase "the dust bowl"?
(a) Ed Stanley.
(b) Byron Noble.
(c) Frank G. Gorrie.
(d) Harvey Love.

2. What did the game warden do when he spied Joe Rantz poaching salmon in the beginning of Part 2: Resiliency, Chapter 8?
(a) He hauled Joe to the county jail.
(b) He shot him in the ankle with a pistol.
(c) He hit him over the head with a piece of driftwood.
(d) He called Joe's father.

3. George Pocock grew up in and around the boathouse of what prominent school?
(a) Winchester College.
(b) Yale University.
(c) Eton College.
(d) Harvard University.

4. On what body of water was the first intercollegiate crew race held in the United States?
(a) Langer See.
(b) Lake Winnepesaukee.
(c) Lake Siskiyou.
(d) Montlake Cut.

5. In what year did Joe Rantz's parents marry?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1899.
(c) 1875.
(d) 1882.

Short Answer Questions

1. On what date does the author say "it began to rain in Seattle as it had never rained before and has never rained since" in Part 1: What Seasons They Have Been Through, Chapter 5?

2. When was the Aurora Bridge opened?

3. How hold was Joe Rantz when his father and Thula abandoned him in Sequim, Washington?

4. When was Franklin D. Roosevelt inaugurated as President of the United States?

5. What was novel about the manner in which Joe Rantz's parents married?

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