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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Aviation is a common cause destined to ______________________.
(a) Bring humanity closer together
(b) Entertain the very rich
(c) Bring tragedy to many families
(d) Become a terrorist weapon

2. The early aviators navigate by ____________________ rather than instruments.
(a) weather patterns
(b) astrology
(c) landscape details
(d) gut instinct

3. Who is George Lane?
(a) Miriam's favorite professor
(b) Miriam's accountant
(c) Miriam's husband
(d) Miriam's brother-in-law

4. What makes Lindbergh renounce his profession?
(a) The devastation of Europe during the war
(b) He gets a mental illness
(c) His wife dies
(d) He gets arthritis

5. Lindbergh is drawn to the Masai people's ________________.
(a) culture
(b) food
(c) kinship with nature
(d) art

6. What does McCullough advise people to take with them everywhere?
(a) Maps
(b) Books
(c) Laptop
(d) iPod

7. What is Conrad Richter's first novel?
(a) Seasons of Love
(b) The Sea Has No Secrets
(c) Seaside Serenade
(d) The Sea of Grass

8. Who becomes the spokesman for the Kentucky residents affected by strip mining?
(a) Henry Clay
(b) Harry Monroe Caudill
(c) John Muir
(d) William Lexington

9. With what part or the country is Plowden enamored?
(a) New England
(b) Southeast
(c) Midwest
(d) Northwest

10. This time period is marked by both horror and ______________.
(a) Culture
(b) Fear
(c) Progress
(d) Beauty

11. Who is the only president to retire in Washington?
(a) Woodrow Wilson
(b) Abraham Lincoln
(c) George H. W. Bush
(d) Ulysses S. Grant

12. What is the name of the building where presidential guests are housed?
(a) White House Annex
(b) Georgetown Inn
(c) Blair House
(d) The Four Seasons

13. What is David Plowden's profession?
(a) Photographer
(b) Physician
(c) Journalist
(d) Naturalist

14. What is mined in the state in the answer to #122?
(a) Gold
(b) Diamonds
(c) Uranium
(d) Coal

15. Where is Miriam's home?
(a) Ashton Wold
(b) Oxford
(c) New York
(d) Paris

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the dominant subject of Plowden's work?

2. Which Civil War battle accounts for the bloodiest day in American history?

3. Which of the following does Plowden not arrive in time to photograph before its demise?

4. What does Caudill call his tours of Kentucky strip mines for visitors from other states?

5. In strip mining, how many acres are disturbed for every acre mined?

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