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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What one good thing had Holley done that remains at the graphics business?
(a) Turned a bird into a Pegasus.
(b) Created a mural along the hallway.
(c) Wrote a manual on graphic design.
(d) Instilled the value of artistic integrity in the design team.

3. What does Drew Ballinger wish to bring on the canoe trip?
(a) A Martin guitar.
(b) Survival gear.
(c) A waterproof camera.
(d) Plenty of liquor.

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

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Drew and Bobby do while Ed and Lewis talk to the Griner brothers?

2. When does Lewis say the men should meet for their canoe trip?

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

4. Why does Lewis think he can find the Cahulawassee River himself?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Ed let his employee, George Holley, go?

2. Why does Ed choose to bury the dead attacker instead of telling the authorities what happened?

3. On the second day of the canoe trip, why does Lewis rearrange the gear to lighten Ed and Bobby's load?

4. As Lewis and Ed drive to Oree, how does Lewis describe the lifestyle of the people in the hill country?

5. What's the significance of the owl hunting from Ed's tent the first night?

6. From where does Ed think the model in the photo shoot is?

7. Learning that Ed killed their attacker, why is Bobby surprised that Ed did what he'd set out to do?

8. What problem does Drew Ballinger's son have?

9. Why does the sheriff keep asking questions after saying he accepts Ed's story of the accident?

10. After shooting their attacker, why does Ed track him even though he himself has been wounded?

(see the answer keys)

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