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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. For what is Bryson yearning?
(a) Real hiking
(b) Hiking with Katz
(c) A cheeseburger
(d) Seeing a black bear
2. What is located at the summit of Mt. Washington?
(a) A cafeteria and gift shops
(b) A ranger station
(c) An American flag
(d) A petting zoo
3. What is the estimate of people who hike the Appalachian Trail every year?
(a) Three or four thousand
(b) One million
(c) Three or four million
(d) Three or four hundred
4. How do people get to the top of Mt. Washington if they do not hike?
(a) Hay wagon
(b) Horseback
(c) Bicycle riding
(d) Driving or cog railway
5. 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 jumps into the river.
(d) He goes home.
Short Answer Questions
1. What is Bryson's goal before he meets up with Katz again?
2. What mountain inspired Melville's Moby Dick.
3. How large were the Appalachian Mountains eons ago?
4. How many miles of the Appalachian Trail run through Pennsylvania?
5. What is it like hiking in the Hundred Miles Wilderness?
Short Essay Questions
1. Describe what is killing the hemlock trees along the AT in the Blue Ridge Mountains and how is it being treated.
2. Describe Kitattiny Mountain and how it was formed.
3. Describe the circumstances when Bryson comes close to becoming a hypothermia victim.
4. Explain why Mount Washington has such extreme weather conditions.
5. Summarize what Katz does to pass the time while Bryson is at Kmart.
6. Describe Bryson's thoughts on areas through which he thinks the Appalachian Trail should pass.
7. What has Mount Greylock, the highest peak in Massachusetts, inspired?
8. 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.
9. Describe the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire.
10. Describe what Bryson finds strange about the town of Centralia.
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