View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are the weather conditions when most people are victims to hypothermia?
(a) Freezing temperatures
(b) Temperate weather
(c) Rain and wind
(d) Blizzard conditions

2. What are the weather conditions like on Mount Washington?
(a) The weather is usually warm and sunny.
(b) The weather is balmy.
(c) The weather is extreme and quickly changes.
(d) The weather is calm.

3. What does Katz tell Bryson he has to protect them from bears?
(a) Pepper spray
(b) A BB gun
(c) A Bowie knife
(d) A toenail clipper

4. Where do Katz and Bryson agree to continue their hike in August?
(a) The White Mountains
(b) Pennsylvania
(c) Vermont
(d) The Hundred Mile Wilderness

5. Who set up the American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy in 1785?
(a) Jeremy Washington
(b) Gene Greylock
(c) Alden Partridge
(d) Michael McKinley

6. What does Bryson discover when it starts raining in the mountains of New England?
(a) He forgot his boots.
(b) He forgot his rain hat.
(c) He forgot his waterproof backpack.
(d) He forgot his rain jacket.

7. What does Katz do because of loneliness and despair?
(a) He starts drinking again.
(b) He sits on the trail and refuses to move.
(c) He goes home.
(d) He jumps into the river.

8. What is killing all the hemlock trees along the Appalachian Trail?
(a) A fungus
(b) Acid rain
(c) Spiders
(d) An aphid introduced from Asia

9. Why does Katz stay in his room while staying in Waynesboro?
(a) He is watching the X-Files.
(b) He has a cold.
(c) He is catching up on sleep.
(d) A jealous husband is after him.

10. What is unusual about the town of Centralia?
(a) It has a rare form of iron ore.
(b) It has toxic waterways.
(c) An underground fire has been burning for decades.
(d) It has rare flowering trees.

11. Why do Bryson and Katz hike to old iron works?
(a) It has a cafeteria.
(b) It is a tourist attraction.
(c) It has a shelter.
(d) They are looking for a ride out of the wilderness.

12. Which beautiful Appalachian ranges are at the north and west of Pennsylvania?
(a) Overland Mountain, Pike's Peak, and Jefferson Range
(b) Washington, Lafayette, and McKinley
(c) Nittany, Jacks, and Tussey
(d) Crescent Peak, Clingman's Bluff, and Tuckerman's Ravine

13. What has devastated a mountain of foliage in Palmerton?
(a) Fire ants
(b) A zinc factory
(c) Gypsy moth caterpillars
(d) Grubs

14. What is the percentage of through hikers who make it to the Hundred Mile Wilderness?
(a) 35
(b) 75
(c) 10
(d) 2

15. What is the last long stretch of hiking for Katz and Bryson before ending the first part of their trek?
(a) Hundred Mile Wilderness
(b) The Appalachian Mountains
(c) Shenandoah National Park
(d) White Mountains

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the oldest shelter on the Appalachian Trail?

2. What mountain inspired Melville's Moby Dick.

3. How do people get to the top of Mt. Washington if they do not hike?

4. Which mountains are older than the oceans and continents?

5. What does Bryson use as a confirmation that they are really in the wilderness?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 504 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample