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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. How does William describe Cape Porpoise, Maine?
(a) Suburban paradise.
(b) Urban and sophisticated.
(c) Messy and run down.
(d) White picket fence village.

2. What route does William take when he gets to New Jersey and wants to travel to the Pine Barrens?
(a) Interstate 87.
(b) Route 102.
(c) U.S. Highway 9.
(d) George Washington Bridge.

3. Who is staying in the dorm the night William sleeps at a university in Michigan?
(a) Basketball player.
(b) Security guard.
(c) Insurance salesman.
(d) Student.

4. What is Marion an expert on?
(a) Birds.
(b) Vegetable gardening.
(c) Town history
(d) Landscape painting.

5. What is the Algonquian name for the river that means "white shining"?
(a) Wabash.
(b) Chicago.
(c) Whitman.
(d) Evanston.

Short Answer Questions

1. What river does William cross to get into Gallipolis, Ohio?

2. What does the man tell stories about on the ferry ride William takes from Connecticut?

3. Where does William spend the night on Smith Island?

4. What New England state is William in at the opening of Section 9?

5. What town in Connecticut used to make clipper ships?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Portland, Oregon, get its name?

2. What is William's state of mind when he is traveling through New England?

3. What importance does maple syrup have to Tom Hunter?

4. How does William describe the location of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

5. Describe William's visit with Scott Chisholm.

6. What memory does William have of Vern when he thinks about the lack of service at gas stations?

7. What does William think of Grand Forks, North Dakota?

8. Describe William's experience sleeping in a dorm room at Central Michigan University.

9. What does Alice say changed the social pattern of Smith Island?

10. Does William feel bored with the flat terrain of Montana and North Dakota?

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