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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before Lewis arrives to begin the canoe trip, what does Ed's wife do to make Ed feel better?
(a) She makes love to him.
(b) She tells him he'll enjoy the trip.
(c) She makes sure he has everything he needs.
(d) She tells him he doesn't have to make the trip.

2. 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's folk music played in the right setting.
(c) Drew knows what kind of music each man likes and plays it.
(d) It reminds him of home and of his wife.

3. What do Drew and Bobby do while Ed and Lewis talk to the Griner brothers?
(a) Find a place for the men to have lunch.
(b) Call the men's families to let them know they are in Oree.
(c) Buy supplies.
(d) Find the turn-off leading to the river.

4. How is the first man that the four men encounter in Oree described?
(a) A teen-aged boy on his way home from school.
(b) An old man with a straw hat and work shirt.
(c) A man wearing a stained, gray work uniform.
(d) The owner of the dry goods store.

5. What wakes Ed the morning he is to depart on the canoe trip?
(a) His eagerness to get going.
(b) Martha, his wife.
(c) The sound of the wind.
(d) The alarm clock he set the night before.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Bobby Trippe want to bring on the canoe trip?

2. What is Ed's first impression of the Cahulawassee river?

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

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

5. Alone in his office after the luncheon during which the canoe trip was proposed, what depresses Ed?

(see the answer key)

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