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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ed explain his wound to the doctor who treats him?
(a) The doctor isn't suspicious, so he says nothing.
(b) He comes up with a story that is part fact, part fiction.
(c) He says he fell on his knife.
(d) He convinces the doctor he was hurt in the rapids.

2. What ruins the perfect shot Ed has at the shooter at the top of the cliff?
(a) A breeze springs up and sways the tree Ed is in.
(b) Ed's too anxious, as when he'd missed the buck earlier.
(c) The shooter moves.
(d) Ed's arm cramps from holding the drawn bowstring too long.

3. In the September 16 section, how does Ed react to Bobby's not having left at daybreak as planned?
(a) He's glad because Bobby can now help him with the body.
(b) He's too badly hurt from his fall from the cliff to care.
(c) He's enraged.
(d) He's glad Bobby disobeyed orders and stayed to help.

4. Why does Ed enjoy Drew's music so much at the first encampment of the canoe trip?
(a) It's soft mood music.
(b) It reminds him of home and of his wife.
(c) It's folk music played in the right setting.
(d) Drew knows what kind of music each man likes and plays it.

5. What does Bobby do while the ambulance crew works on Lewis, and they wait for the Highway Patrol to arrive?
(a) He stays apart because he needs to be alone for a moment.
(b) He watches over Lewis until the ambulance leaves.
(c) He chews on Ed for leaving him alone with a dying man.
(d) He practices the agreed-upon story with two fishermen.

Short Answer Questions

1. While hunting the first morning of the canoe trip, why does Ed miss the buck at which he shoots?

2. What guides Ed's choice of location from which to shoot their attacker?

3. After the three men are out of the river, after their canoes overturned, what does Lewis tell the others?

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

5. After the trip, how does Ed divert suspicion from them?

(see the answer key)

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