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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ed get up the cliff?
(a) He crawls along switchbacks.
(b) He uses his hands and feet to climb the surface of the cliff.
(c) He uses the rope to relay from one rock to another.
(d) The climb is surprisingly easy.

2. What ruins the perfect shot Ed has at the shooter at the top of the cliff?
(a) A breeze springs up and sways the tree Ed is in.
(b) Ed's too anxious, as when he'd missed the buck earlier.
(c) Ed's arm cramps from holding the drawn bowstring too long.
(d) The shooter moves.

3. What does Ed do with the body of the dead shooter?
(a) He hides it under brush and leaves.
(b) He leaves it to be disposed of by the animals.
(c) He lowers it down the cliff with a rope.
(d) He throws it over the cliff.

4. Where do the men decide to bury the body of the man Lewis shot?
(a) In the rapids where the river will take care of it.
(b) Some distance upstream in the woods.
(c) A day's travel downriver by the river's edge.
(d) In a deep pool in the river weighted by rocks.

5. After the trip, how does Ed divert suspicion from them?
(a) By asking for a search party to find Drew.
(b) By pointing the authorities to the wrong part of the river.
(c) By pretending there had only been three of them on the trip.
(d) By saying a falling boulder hit and killed Drew in the gorge.

6. In the September 15 section, what does Ed instruct Bobby to do the next morning?
(a) Keep Lewis warm and wait for Ed to return.
(b) Distract the shooter, so Ed can kill him.
(c) Do whatever's necessary to protect Lewis from the shooter.
(d) Leave with Lewis in the canoe at first light.

7. How does the Highway Patrolman react to the made-up story?
(a) He immediately sees flaws in the story.
(b) He seems to go along with it.
(c) He calls another patrolman over to see what he thinks.
(d) He says everyone is innocent until proved guilty.

8. How does Ed attract Bobby's attention from the top of the cliff as Bobby paddles the canoe down the river?
(a) He yells loudly.
(b) He throws the rifle into the water ahead of the canoe.
(c) He waves and jumps up and down.
(d) He reflects a mirror off the aluminum canoe's side.

9. Once at the top of the cliff, how does Ed determine the shooter's next course of action?
(a) He determines what he'd do if he was the shooter.
(b) He guesses at the shooter's past experiences with a gun.
(c) He examines the ground for the shooter's tracks.
(d) He expects the shooter to repeat his earlier actions.

10. How does Ed end up in the river on the second day of the trip?
(a) He tries to stablize the canoe and overcompensates.
(b) The canoe hits a rock and breaks up.
(c) He reaches for Drew and misses.
(d) Drew falls overboard and overturns the canoe.

11. What does Ed do while waiting for that help to arrive?
(a) He finds a first-aid kit and brings it to the canoe.
(b) He tries to relax in a comfortable chair.
(c) He returns to the canoe to check on Lewis and Bobby.
(d) He tells the people in the house the agreed-upon story.

12. What does Lewis tell Ed that he must do if they are to survive the canoe trip?
(a) Get help.
(b) That he believes in Ed's ability to get them out alive.
(c) Come at their attacker from behind.
(d) Kill their attacker.

13. What change has come about with Lewis while Ed was dealing with the shooter?
(a) He's unconscious and unresponsive.
(b) He's recovered enough to ask Ed what happened.
(c) He's now vomiting and pale as death.
(d) He's still in pain but manages to praise Ed's shooting.

14. What does Drew want to do with the body of the man Lewis killed?
(a) Dump the body in the river.
(b) Leave it where it is and get out of there as fast as possible.
(c) Take it to Aintry and inform the police.
(d) Bury the body.

15. Which members of the group get through the rapids generally unhurt?
(a) Lewis and Bobby.
(b) Ed and Bobby.
(c) Ed and Lewis.
(d) Ed and Drew.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Lewis tell Ed after Ed pulls him from the river after his canoe overturns?

2. What does Bobby do while the ambulance crew works on Lewis, and they wait for the Highway Patrol to arrive?

3. Why doesn't Lewis kill the man as soon as he and Drew arrive where Bobby and Ed are being held at gunpoint?

4. What does Lewis say when Ed returns to camp and tells him he missed a buck?

5. What does Ed notice in the middle of the night as he rests in the crevice of the cliff he's climbing?

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