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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through September 15th.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In what season do the men take their canoe trip?
(a) Early winter, just before freeze-up.
(b) Early autumn.
(c) Spring, when the river level is high.
(d) Summer.

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

3. What does Lewis think of people living in the rural South?
(a) They are good people but clannish.
(b) He thinks they are lacking ambition.
(c) He dislikes them intensely.
(d) He doesn't think of them one way or another.

4. Which of the four men discussing the canoe trip leads a normal, suburban life?
(a) Ed and Lewis.
(b) Bobby and Drew.
(c) All of them.
(d) None of them.

5. On the first day of the canoe trip, for what does Lewis tell Ed he wants to be ready?
(a) His own death.
(b) When the machines and political systems fail.
(c) The day the human race finally finds peace.
(d) The day Ed finally comes around to his way of thinking.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ed always notice about people in the rural South?

2. Which of the following sports is the only one Lewis did not learn?

3. What does the man who hurt Bobby do after he is shot?

4. What one thing do all three men invited for the canoe trip share?

5. What do Drew and Bobby do while Ed and Lewis talk to the Griner brothers?

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