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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What kind of men work at the graphics studio?
(a) Men who failed elsewhere due to lack of talent.
(b) Men who are difficult with whom it is difficult to get along.
(c) Men who'd tried it in New York and returned to the South.
(d) Men who take orders well.

3. Why does Ed enjoy Drew's music so much at the first encampment of the canoe trip?
(a) It reminds him of home and of his wife.
(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's soft mood music.

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

5. At lunch, discussing the canoe trip, why does the trip organizer suggest the men take the trip now?
(a) The water level will be too low later.
(b) It will soon be winter and too cold.
(c) The river is going to be dammed, and the area will flood.
(d) Ed's business schedule will only allow it this week.

6. Alone in his office after the canoe trip was proposed, how does Ed get past his depression?
(a) He uses deep breathing techniques.
(b) He talks himself out of it.
(c) He gets to work on the day's photo shoot.
(d) He doesn't; it plagues him for the rest of the day.

7. What does Ed always notice about people in the rural South?
(a) How slowly and deliberately they move.
(b) The number of missing fingers.
(c) Dandruff.
(d) A kind of charm that settles about them like fireflies.

8. What does Ed like to do for his friends?
(a) Play practical jokes.
(b) Give them a handicap when they play golf.
(c) Make collages.
(d) Take them for a drink on their birthdays.

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

10. What kind of pictures does Ed think resulted from the Kitt's photo shoot?
(a) Good enough to satisfy the client, though not professional.
(b) Nothing that can be used.
(c) Some good stuff.
(d) Better pictures than ever before.

11. What does Bobby Trippe want to bring on the canoe trip?
(a) An extra first-aid kit.
(b) Liquor.
(c) Archery equipment.
(d) A gun for protection.

12. What tempts Ed to pull out of the canoe trip at the last minute?
(a) He wants to go golfing.
(b) The thought of snakes, insects, and twigs.
(c) He has an unexpected premonition of danger.
(d) He has no experience with white-water canoeing.

13. What about the model in Ed's photo shoot attracts him the most?
(a) Her long legs; he likes women with long legs.
(b) A gold mote in one of her eyes.
(c) The way she acts as if she finds him attractive.
(d) The way she stands, like royalty.

14. What kind of business does Ed Gentry own with a partner?
(a) A graphics design firm.
(b) None, he recently sold his half of the business.
(c) He's the sole owner of a tax business.
(d) An accounting firm.

15. What memory does the sight of a red-and-white drive-in reawaken in Ed as he and Lewis drive past it?
(a) Stopping there with Dean after a baseball game.
(b) Having lunch with his co-workers.
(c) A time when Lewis criticized the food.
(d) A Christmas party where he drank too much.

Short Answer Questions

1. For what disaster have Lewis and his wife prepared?

2. To what businesses does the graphics studio mostly cater ?

3. What had Ed found attractive about his wife when they first met?

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

5. In the Before section, what does the graphics studio client think will best sell his Kitt's product?

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