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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who joins Bryson and Katz in one of the Shenandoah shelters?
(a) The Boy Scouts
(b) Park rangers
(c) Mary Ellen
(d) A newlywed couple

2. What does Bryson consider perfect about hiking in Vermont?
(a) Vermont has rolling fields and pleasant streams.
(b) He can commute with his car and be home at night to sleep in his own bed.
(c) Vermont reminds him of England.
(d) Vermont has level, easy hiking trails.

3. Who joins Bryson and Katz in Gravel Springs Hut?
(a) Chicken John
(b) John Connelly
(c) Loud, obnoxious hikers
(d) A father and son

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

5. Who maintains the stone lodges which are located in the White Mountains?
(a) The National Forest Service
(b) The state of New Hampshire
(c) The Appalachian Mountain Club
(d) The White Mountain Society

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Chicken John's claim to fame?

2. Where do Katz and Bryson agree to continue their hike in August?

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

4. How many hotels were scattered in the White Mountains by the 1890's?

5. What does Bryson discover when it starts raining in the mountains of New England?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Chicken John's claim to fame.

2. What is the decision that Bryson and Katz make after Katz gets lost in the woods.

3. Describe how Bryson returns to the hotel room in Waynesboro after he walks to Kmart.

4. Summarize Bryson's experience hiking in Pennsylvania.

5. Explain why Mount Washington has such extreme weather conditions.

6. Describe what Bryson finds strange about the town of Centralia.

7. Summarize the statistics Laurie Potteiger, the Information Specialist at Harper's Ferry, gives to Bryson about the number of thru hikers who hiked the Appalachian Trail the year before.

8. Describe the circumstances when Bryson comes close to becoming a hypothermia victim.

9. What has Mount Greylock, the highest peak in Massachusetts, inspired?

10. Explain why Katz starts drinking again.

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