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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through September 16th.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of musical instrument does the albino boy, Lonnie, play?
(a) A fiddle.
(b) A banjo.
(c) A guitar.
(d) Spoons.

2. What tempts Ed to pull out of the canoe trip at the last minute?
(a) He has no experience with white-water canoeing.
(b) He has an unexpected premonition of danger.
(c) He wants to go golfing.
(d) The thought of snakes, insects, and twigs.

3. How does Ed end up in the river on the second day of the trip?
(a) Drew falls overboard and overturns the canoe.
(b) He tries to stablize the canoe and overcompensates.
(c) The canoe hits a rock and breaks up.
(d) He reaches for Drew and misses.

4. What is Ed's first impression of the Cahulawassee river?
(a) He considers it small and insignificant-appearing.
(b) He wonders if their canoes are the right kind for the current.
(c) He thinks it's pretty.
(d) It makes him uneasy for reasons he can't identify.

5. How does the Highway Patrolman react to the made-up story?
(a) He immediately sees flaws in the story.
(b) He calls another patrolman over to see what he thinks.
(c) He seems to go along with it.
(d) He says everyone is innocent until proved guilty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Ed tell Lewis he'll go if disaster strikes?

2. In the story Lewis tells Ed while they are driving to Oree, what happened when his friend was lost?

3. Why doesn't Lewis kill the man as soon as he and Drew arrive where Bobby and Ed are being held at gunpoint?

4. Why doesn't the shooter kill Ed while he's in the river retrieving the overturned aluminum canoe?

5. What does Lewis think of people living in the rural South?

(see the answer key)

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