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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the estimate of people who hike the Appalachian Trail every year?
(a) Three or four hundred
(b) Three or four thousand
(c) Three or four million
(d) One million

2. What do Bryson and Katz talk about as they dine in the Georgia Mountain Restaurant in Hiawassee?
(a) The life and times of a cockroach
(b) The abandonment of their uninvited hiking partner
(c) The pros and cons of renting a mule
(d) The great food in the finest restaurants in Boston and New York

3. Who sees hiking as a dirty, pointless endeavor?
(a) Katz
(b) Bryson's wife
(c) Mary Ellen
(d) Bryson

4. What is the story Katz tells as they recline on Indian Grove Gap?
(a) Grandma Katz was attacked by an impatient buzzard that ate her eyeball.
(b) A blind juggler used his two eyeballs that had been surgically removed.
(c) A turkey plucked out Grandpa Katz' eyeball and ate it.
(d) A man snorted too much, one day popped an eyeball and the dog ate it.

5. How are Bryson and Katz covering the last 11 miles to Hiawassee?
(a) An unusual number of sitting rest stops
(b) A very fast walking pace
(c) Hitchhiking
(d) A very slow walking pace

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the daydream of every hiker as they walk the trail?

2. Why does Bryson insist that they sleep in shelters from now on?

3. What is a common trade in northern Georgia?

4. What are Katz and Bryson confronted with when they reach High Top?

5. What does Mary Ellen tell another hiker at Plumorchard Gap Shelter about Katz and Bryson?

(see the answer key)

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