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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. While in Oree, what animal(s) does Ed wonder about getting a chance to hunt?
(a) Bears and wild hogs.
(b) A ten-point buck.
(c) Wolverines.
(d) Raccoons.

3. Where does Ed tell Lewis he'll go if disaster strikes?
(a) He'll stay at home.
(b) He'll head north where his wife has relatives.
(c) Into the hills where he can live life on his own terms.
(d) South where it's warm.

4. Which of the four men discussing the canoe trip leads a normal, suburban life?
(a) None of them.
(b) Bobby and Drew.
(c) All of them.
(d) Ed and Lewis.

5. Prior to the trip, which of the four men is the only one having experience with a canoe?
(a) Drew Ballinger.
(b) Ed Gentry.
(c) Bobby Trippe.
(d) Lewis Medlock.

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

7. 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) A time when Lewis criticized the food.
(c) Having lunch with his co-workers.
(d) A Christmas party where he drank too much.

8. What one thing do all three men invited for the canoe trip share?
(a) All work for the same company.
(b) All are unhappily married.
(c) All are suburban, middle-class men.
(d) None like Lewis.

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

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

11. What is Ed's first impression of the Cahulawassee river?
(a) It makes him uneasy for reasons he can't identify.
(b) He considers it small and insignificant-appearing.
(c) He wonders if their canoes are the right kind for the current.
(d) He thinks it's pretty.

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

13. Where is the dam being built that will turn part of the Cahulawassee River into a lake?
(a) Aintry.
(b) Where the river exits Lake Bodie.
(c) A few miles south of Atlanta.
(d) Oree.

14. What camping equipment do Ed and Dean play with in the living room the morning Ed leaves on the canoe trip?
(a) The sofa pillows; they have a pillow fight.
(b) The rope coiled on top of everythng.
(c) His bow and arrows.
(d) A knife.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

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

4. While driving to Oree, what does Ed tell Lewis about himself?

5. Before Lewis arrives to pick Ed up for the canoe trip, where is Ed's son Dean?

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