Free Desert Solitaire Quiz

1)

What does Abbey feel is lost with the looting of the forests' natural treasures? (from Chapter 6 Rocks)

A sense of prosperity

Homes for wildlife

Protection from erosion

Human delight

2)

As a true patriot, Abbey encourages Waterman to (from Chapter 17 Terra Incognita: Into the Maze)

Go back to his real life

Hide from the draft

Fight in the war proudly

Find himself

3)

Why did Roy Scobie need to round up his cattle? (from Chapter 7 Cowboys and Indians)

To get them to a cooler, higher altitude

They have depeleted their pasture of food

To prepare them for slaughter

To get a grazing permit

4)

What is the one clue we have that the lawyer who approached Mrs. Husk was representing the government? (from Chapter 6 Rocks)

His knowledge of her husband's death

His authorization to offer large amounts of money to her

His cufflinks

The emblem on his lighter

5)

Viviano's English is about fifty percent (from Chapter 7 Cowboys and Indians)

Fortune telling

Garbled

Profanity

Understandable

6)

An arroyo seco is (from Chapter 9 Water)

A mesa with a view

A dry stream bed

A ramada

A rushing river

7)

Abbey suggests to Waterman that, perhaps, like a German poet, we humans (from Chapter 17 Terra Incognita: Into the Maze)

Become lost in our thoughts

Do not exist without names

Are unchangeable

Become more concerned with the naming than the things named

8)

Unlike Thoreau, Abbey's intention is to (from Chapter 18 Bedrock and Paradox)

Spend six months in the desert

Spend time in the bars

Make the best of two worlds

Be a megalomaniac

9)

The difference between Navajos and other poverty-stricken cultures is (from Chapter 8 Cowboys and Indians Part II)

They are inadequate by national standards

They must report their medical services to the government

Their population growth is monitored by the state

They are overseen by the BIA

10)

Viviano Jacquez' nationality is (from Chapter 7 Cowboys and Indians)

Mexican

Italian

Basque

Swiss

11)

A man is shouting from the shore to Abbey and Newcomb about (from Chapter 12 Down the River)

Something important to Abbey and Newcomb

How boaters are not allowed

Something private to Abbey and Newcomb

Something the reader never learns

12)

Vernon Pick managed to sufficiently purify his water by (from Chapter 9 Water)

Turning his canteen into a charcoal filter

Pouring water through thick brush before drinking

Filtering the water through gravel

Running water through sand before drinking

13)

Quicksand is simply (from Chapter 7 Cowboys and Indians)

Hot fine grained sand

A mixture of soft sand and water

Pasty lava-type sand

Cold, chunky viscous sand

14)

The group's reactions after the man is taken away involve (from Chapter 14 The Dead Man at Grandview Point)

Relief and humor

An introspective meditation

Raucous partying

Sad silence

15)

The story of Husk, Graham and Billy-Joe is obviously (from Chapter 6 Rocks)

A detailed account of a local legend

A fairy tale, at best

An experience Abbey personally had

Heavily embellished by Abbey

16)

After Moon-Eye rushed Abbey and ran fifty feet away, Abbey waited on him for (from Chapter 11 The Moon-Eyed Horse)

A full hour

Through the entire evening

The rest of the afternoon

A few minutes longer

17)

Abbey's reaction to the man's manner of death is one of (from Chapter 14 The Dead Man at Grandview Point)

Congratulatory envy

Fear of going the same way

Revulsion at the sight

Anger for his carelessness

18)

The desert winds of May have (from Chapter 10 The Heat of Noon: Rock and Tree and Cloud)

Dried the river to a stream

Brought huge thunderclouds

Burned the green things to saffron and auburn

Cleaned out the flowers and debris

19)

Abbey gives us an idea of how he laces his conversations with tourists (from Chapter 16 Episodes and Visions)

With warnings

With humor

With anger

With disgust

20)

Abbey admits that he, too, is a member of (from Chapter 18 Bedrock and Paradox)

A civilized tribe

The human rat race

The local grange

Freeway traffic

21)

West of the Mississippi, Abbey says the cult of "cowboyism" is growing as fast as (from Chapter 8 Cowboys and Indians Part II)

The population of buffalo

The local Indian reservations

The counter culture

The disappearance of cattle herding

22)

Why does Abbey say he wants the wild horse, Moon-Eye? (from Chapter 11 The Moon-Eyed Horse)

He says he does not know

He is curious about a reclusive horse

He wants to see his huge hooves

He wants him for transportation

23)

Abbey had no fear of drowning in the Havasupai Canyon floor's stream because (from Chapter 9 Water)

It was salty and made him bouyant

It was only ankle deep

He intended to drink it all

It was only a mirage

24)

Abbey tries to convince Moon-Eye to come with by telling him a story about (from Chapter 11 The Moon-Eyed Horse)

His own childhood

How he will get the others and come for him

How he will die and be eaten

His pet horse back in Albuquerque

25)

What were Husk and Graham hoping for? (from Chapter 6 Rocks)

Riches through uranium

A new wife

A nature experience

A natural life for the boy

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