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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who first suggests a white-water canoe trip?
(a) Ed Gentry.
(b) Bobby Trippe.
(c) Drew Ballinger.
(d) Lewis Medlock.

3. What does the Griner brother ask Lewis after being asked to drive the cars to Aintry?
(a) Why they are bothering him.
(b) What's the most he is willing to pay each of them.
(c) Who sent them to see him.
(d) Why their cars need to be driven to Aintry.

4. Why does Lewis think he can find the Cahulawassee River himself?
(a) He got directions at the filling station.
(b) He trusts his instinctive sense of direction.
(c) He can see the trees beside the river in the distance.
(d) He has pored over maps until he has the way memorized.

5. What does the blue light of the Kitt's photo shoot remind Ed of?
(a) A pool of water.
(b) Prisons and interrogations.
(c) Mornings and evenings.
(d) A hot desert sky.

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

7. What are the approximate ages of the four men who are discussing the canoe trip?
(a) Mid-thirties.
(b) Mid-forties.
(c) Varies from twenty to thirty-five.
(d) Late twenties.

8. While driving to Oree, what does Lewis tell Ed?
(a) That nothing important ever happens in the hill country.
(b) That Ed's the only one on the trip besides him with any brains.
(c) That Ed usually only does what he has to do.
(d) That he doubts he'll truly enjoy the trip.

9. How much does Lewis offer each Griner brother to drive their cars to Aintry?
(a) Five dollars.
(b) Ten dollars.
(c) Forty dollars.
(d) Twenty dollars.

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

11. Which employees of the graphics studio does the owner feel most sorry for?
(a) Real artists.
(b) Men who lack the talent to rise far in their profession.
(c) Talented artists who can't follow orders.
(d) Men who have squandered their talent.

12. What people surround Ed as he walks back to work from having lunch with the other men?
(a) Men returning to work after lunch.
(b) Couples strolling through the park.
(c) Women.
(d) Mothers and children shopping for school supplies.

13. What enables Lewis to live life on his terms?
(a) He owns an insurance business.
(b) Lack of family.
(c) He has a subconscious death wish.
(d) Self-determination.

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

15. Which of the four men on the canoe trip is a straightforward quiet fellow?
(a) Lewis.
(b) Bobby.
(c) Drew.
(d) Ed.

Short Answer Questions

1. in the Before section, Ed Gentry is depressed after lunch because...

2. What memory does the sight of a red-and-white drive-in reawaken in Ed as he and Lewis drive past it?

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

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

5. How is the first man that the four men encounter in Oree described?

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