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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Ben compares his wife's hair and appearance as looking like Julie Andrews in what movie in Chapter 4?
(a) Mary Poppins.
(b) The Sound of Music.
(c) Cinderella.
(d) Hawaii.

2. How much of a person's body heat is lost through the head, according to the narrator in Chapter 5?
(a) 1/2.
(b) 1/3.
(c) 1/8.
(d) 1/4.

3. What does Ben use as fish bait in Chapter 13?
(a) Flies.
(b) Crickets.
(c) Imitation salmon eggs.
(d) Worms.

4. What does Ben tell Ashley is the best thing she has got going for her in Chapter 21?
(a) Her sense of humor.
(b) Her love of nature.
(c) Her love for her fiance.
(d) Her pain threshold.

5. Approximately how many miles off course was the plane when it crashed, according to Ben's calculations in Chapter 7?
(a) About 400 miles.
(b) About 300 miles.
(c) Over 150 miles.
(d) Over 20 miles.

6. What does Ben use to make a makeshift sled to pull Ashley in Chapter 21?
(a) The plane wing.
(b) A canoe.
(c) A piece of driftwood.
(d) A raft.

7. From where has Ben just returned from a medical conference in Chapter 1?
(a) Seattle.
(b) Washington, D.C.
(c) Colorado Springs.
(d) Chicago.

8. In Ben's freshman year, he won the 400-meter dash in what time?
(a) 50.9 seconds.
(b) 60.2 seconds.
(c) 39.8 seconds.
(d) 59.3 seconds.

9. Where were Ben and his wife when Ben proposed marriage to her?
(a) On the beach.
(b) At her parents' home.
(c) At a church.
(d) At the school.

10. To what does Ben compare the snow on the evergreen trees in Chapter 22?
(a) Syrup.
(b) Pudding.
(c) Frosting.
(d) Icy death.

11. Ben says in Chapter 11, "I look back on college and I think those were" what (94)?
(a) "The hardest times."
(b) "A constant struggle."
(c) "The easiest of times."
(d) "Some of the best days."

12. Where had Ben's father moved during Ben's last year of undergrad?
(a) New Jersey.
(b) New York.
(c) Connecticut.
(d) Maine.

13. What mountains does Ben describe in Chapter 11 as having become "our thing too" when dictating to his wife (95)?
(a) The Appalachians.
(b) The Sierras.
(c) The Cascades.
(d) The Rockies.

14. At what time was Ben's original flight scheduled to depart in Chapter 1?
(a) 6:07 p.m.
(b) 12:25 p.m.
(c) 10:12 a.m.
(d) 7:09 a.m.

15. For how long does Ashley say she and Ben have been stuck here since the plane crash in Chapter 22?
(a) 11 days.
(b) 4 days.
(c) 16 days.
(d) 19 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name of Grover's dog?

2. What colors are the plane that Ben and Ashley crashed in?

3. What was Ben's wife's maiden name?

4. What was in the box marked "DESSERT" that Ben's wife gave him on his drive to Jacksonville (104)?

5. What does Ben respond when Ashley asks him about the voicemail in Chapter 22?

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