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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 3, Chapters 1-5.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What material makes up the seventh layer of the Grand Canyon?
(a) Limestone.
(b) Marble.
(c) Tapeats sandstone.
(d) Granite.

2. What was Fletcher's only concern about the proposed trip?
(a) That he would be too lonely.
(b) That it would be physically impossible.
(c) That his family would not support him.
(d) That he would drown.

3. What information was not sought by Fletcher before beginning his trip?
(a) Information about the existence of water sources.
(b) Information about weather.
(c) Information about trails.
(d) Information about the possibility of attacks by wild boar.

4. How does Fletcher describe the state of the Grand Canyon at the time the book was written?
(a) Nearing destruction in a few years.
(b) A dying canyon.
(c) Still changing.
(d) Finished changing.

5. How does "Part 1, The Place" begin?
(a) With information on traveling through Arizona.
(b) With advice on hiking.
(c) With facts about tourist destinations in the United States.
(d) With facts about the Grand Canyon.

Short Answer Questions

1. What are layers 4 through 6 of the Grand Canyon called?

2. What does Fletcher say he realized he might be doing when he hiked through the Grand Canyon?

3. Fletcher says while studying the Grand Canyon he realized the silence there was not a timeless one as he first thought. How does he define it instead?

4. What term does the author use for what comprises the third layer of the Grand Canyon?

5. How did Fletcher say the big moment happened when he knew he would take the journey through the Grand Canyon?

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