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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who gives Bryson gear shopping etiquette instructions?
(a) Son
(b) Katz
(c) Wife
(d) Daughter's boyfriend

2. What is Bryson's joking impression of God's plan for him?
(a) Spend a little time with "each of the most stupid people on earth"
(b) Not realize he reached the end of AT, hike a thousand miles in to Canada
(c) To be treed by a bear and starve to death in the tree
(d) Fall from a cliff 100 yards before the end of the trail

3. Where were twenty miles of trail lopped off in 1958?
(a) New Hampshire to Vermont
(b) Mount Washington to Tuckerman's Ravine
(c) Gatlinburg to Knoxville
(d) Mount Oglethorpe to Springer Mountain

4. What does the cabdriver suggest Bryson and Katz do to get to their destination?
(a) Rent a motorscooter
(b) Catch the train
(c) Rent a car
(d) Go by bus

5. What is a major drawback to accepting a ride in the Pontiac?
(a) The driver is extremely drunk.
(b) The music is painfully loud.
(c) The car seems to be overheating.
(d) The young couple shouts and argues.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which beautiful Appalachian ranges are at the north and west of Pennsylvania?

2. Where do Bryson and Katz decide to return to the trail?

3. Why is the footpath around Big Butt especially dangerous?

4. Where is 12-year-old David Anderson mauled and killed by a black bear?

5. What is the weather like in Virginia?

(see the answer key)

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