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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through September 14th.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the men find in the river on the first day of the canoe trip?
(a) A boat that must have drifted away from its moorings.
(b) Chicken feathers.
(c) Logs from a logging operation.
(d) Snakes.

2. Which of the following sports is the only one Lewis did not learn?
(a) Archery.
(b) Weightlifting.
(c) Golf.
(d) Spelunking.

3. How do Ed and Drew get through their first whitewater on the trip?
(a) They head straight down the middle.
(b) They get out and pull the canoe, so it won't overturn.
(c) They end up going sideways through most of it.
(d) They let the current carry the canoe through it.

4. in the Before section, Ed Gentry is depressed after lunch because...
(a) He and his wife had a fight that morning.
(b) He doesn't like the presentation on which he's working.
(c) He's afraid he won't live up to Lewis' expectations of him.
(d) He feels his life is ordinary.

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 Ed finally comes around to his way of thinking.
(d) The day the human race finally finds peace.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Drew do after he and Lonnie play a duet?

2. On the way to Oree, where does the group have breakfast?

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

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

5. In what season do the men take their canoe trip?

(see the answer key)

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