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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. 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 doesn't; it plagues him for the rest of the day.
(c) He gets to work on the day's photo shoot.
(d) He talks himself out of it.

3. What does Ed do when the owl hunts from the pole of his tent?
(a) He rolls up in his sleeping bag; it's the only way he can sleep.
(b) He pushes the claws off the tent pole.
(c) He imagines himself hunting with it.
(d) He shakes the tent until it stays away.

4. What does Ed's wife ask him before his departure on the canoe trip?
(a) If he really wants to go.
(b) Whether the photo shoot the day before went well.
(c) Why he agreed to such a crazy trip.
(d) Whether he's up to the physical stress of canoeing.

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

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

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

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

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

10. What does Lewis think of Ed's bow when he comes to pick him up?
(a) He doesn't like it because it's a recurved bow.
(b) He thinks it will do in a pinch.
(c) It's losing glass.
(d) The pull is too light; it might not kill a deer.

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

12. What does Ed think about the Kitt's model when he first sees her?
(a) She's healthy and tomboyish.
(b) He's pleased with her legs.
(c) She's thinner than he likes for this job.
(d) He's disappointed because she's a farm girl.

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

14. in the Before section, why doesn't Ed worry about being late for work?
(a) The shop doesn't have set hours.
(b) He and his partner run a no-sweat shop.
(c) He owns the business so he can come and go as he pleases.
(d) He's not working that day.

15. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Ed looking forward to while the men are discussing the canoe trip during lunch?

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

3. While in Oree, what animal(s) does Ed wonder about getting a chance to hunt?

4. What does the blue light of the Kitt's photo shoot remind Ed of?

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

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