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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Drew do after he and Lonnie play a duet?
(a) He gets Lonnie's name and address to look him up later.
(b) He turns away in embarrassment because he played poorly.
(c) He laughs for the sheer joy of having made music.
(d) He offers Lonnie a chance to play in the city.

2. What does Lewis tell Ed that he must do if they are to survive the canoe trip?
(a) Get help.
(b) That he believes in Ed's ability to get them out alive.
(c) Come at their attacker from behind.
(d) Kill their attacker.

3. In the September 16 section, after disposing of the shooter's body, what do the men find as they continue on down the river?
(a) Some of their equipment.
(b) Drew's body.
(c) The rifle the shooter used stuck on a rock.
(d) The second canoe.

4. After the local man who hurt Bobby is done, and the other man turns to Ed, what happens?
(a) Bobby grabs the gun, and the men run away.
(b) Ed and Bobby together make a concerted attack on the men.
(c) Bobby lunges towards the man with the gun.
(d) An arrow goes through the chest of the man who hurt Bobby.

5. What does Ed notice in the middle of the night as he rests in the crevice of the cliff he's climbing?
(a) Slippery moss covering the rocks he must climb.
(b) The river and the view.
(c) An owl circling like a portent of death.
(d) How the blackness makes everything disappear from view.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the first man that the four men encounter in Oree described?

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

3. What does Ed tell Bobby they must do about the man trying to kill them?

4. How do Bobby and Lewis get their canoe through the rapids that overturned Ed's canoe?

5. Before Lewis arrives to begin the canoe trip, what does Ed's wife do to make Ed feel better?

(see the answer key)

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