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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Road of Trash.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. While Callahan appreciates the simple __________ of the natural world, he still yearns to be rescued from his condition.
(a) Activities.
(b) Beauty.
(c) Foods.
(d) Pleasures.

2. What does Callahan think he hears when he is resting beneath the canopy of his boat?
(a) Aircraft.
(b) God.
(c) Another boat.
(d) His ex-wife.

3. What does Callahan scramble to collect when there is a sudden rainfall on his boat?
(a) His journal.
(b) His dry clothing.
(c) Water for drinking.
(d) More fish.

4. What has caused all of the sores and boils on Callahan's body as he has been sitting in his life raft?
(a) A bacterial infection.
(b) Salt water.
(c) Lack of water.
(d) Lack of food.

5. What did Callahan pack which he felt he had good luck in bringing with him, though he hadn't expected to use it?
(a) A flare gun.
(b) Speargun.
(c) A novel.
(d) His army knife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Callahan begins to appreciate how much better suited the local ____________ are to the area.

2. What happens to the bottom of the older solar still, even with the many efforts of Callahan to fix it?

3. The power strap of Callahan's _____________ gun has fallen loose and now sinks below the waves.

4. What does Callahan improvise with a length of tubing, a part of the blanket, and some twine?

5. What does Callahan successfully kill with a lucky shot, though he is not able to bring it on board?

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