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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 5, West by Southwest, Chapters 1-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What water does William cross as he travels on Georgia 155 after leaving the monastery?
(a) Quiet Creek.
(b) Little Creek.
(c) Shady Creek.
(d) Troublesome Creek.

2. What does "day down" mean?
(a) The day before.
(b) Carolinian for sun down.
(c) Late at night.
(d) The day after.

3. What state is William in when he marks one thousand miles into his journey?
(a) South Dakota.
(b) North Carolina.
(c) Kentucky.
(d) Florida.

4. In 1810, who used the Natchez Trace Parkway?
(a) Explorers.
(b) Ohio Valley traders.
(c) Naturalists.
(d) Military.

5. What story does Noel tell William when they are standing by the location of an old spring?
(a) Runaway train.
(b) Town lore about a bear attack.
(c) Civil War battle.
(d) A woman who mistakenly beat a rug with her child rolled up in it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of food and music does William enjoy in a bar named Eric's in Louisiana?

2. How much money did an seventy-three-year-old Canadian woman win at the casino in Reno, Nevada?

3. What does William think of Dime Box, Texas?

4. What does William say about Kansas City, Kansas, in the opening pages of "South by Southwest"?

5. What reason for wearing suspenders does William tell an older man in Wanchese?

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