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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through After.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Drew want to do with the body of the man Lewis killed?
(a) Take it to Aintry and inform the police.
(b) Leave it where it is and get out of there as fast as possible.
(c) Bury the body.
(d) Dump the body in the river.

2. Why does Lewis tell Ed the story of his lost friend before taking the canoe trip?
(a) As a way of passing along survival skills to his friend.
(b) To illustrate the danger of the rural areas along the river.
(c) He is bragging.
(d) To illustrate the values of rural Southerners.

3. How does Lewis react to having killed a man?
(a) It doesn't seem to bother him.
(b) He examines the man and kicks his dead body.
(c) He shuts himself away from the others.
(d) He loses his breakfast.

4. 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.

5. What do the police do to make sure Bobby and Ed can't collaborate on a story?
(a) They don't let them be alone together.
(b) They keep the two men separated.
(c) They don't let them speak at all.
(d) They take them to the location at different times.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ed do when the owl hunts from the pole of his tent?

2. What happens to the friendship between Ed and Lewis over time?

3. What people surround Ed as he walks back to work from having lunch with the other men?

4. What was Martha's reaction when Ed arrived home?

5. What does Bobby do that makes Ed feel relieved?

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