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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 is Ed most proud of about his business?
(a) Business is increasing rapidly.
(b) He and Thad created it.
(c) It is a refuge from life.
(d) The clients are important local businesses.

2. How is the first man that the four men encounter in Oree described?
(a) The owner of the dry goods store.
(b) A man wearing a stained, gray work uniform.
(c) A teen-aged boy on his way home from school.
(d) An old man with a straw hat and work shirt.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Drew Ballinger wish to bring on the canoe trip?

2. What enables Lewis to live life on his terms?

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

4. Where is the dam being built that will turn part of the Cahulawassee River into a lake?

5. Who first suggests a white-water canoe trip?

Short Essay Questions

1. On the cliff, waiting for their attacker to arrive, why is Ed good at guessing what the attacker will do when he arrives?

2. At the luncheon, of what does Lewis' mention of his bow make Bobby think?

3. After the rape, why does Ed side with Lewis and cast the deciding vote to hide the body instead of reporting the incident to the authorities?

4. Why does Lewis take the lead in the search for the river instead of following the Griner brothers?

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

6. How does the discovery of Drew's body change the dynamics of the situation?

7. Preparing to kill their attacker, why does Ed think he may not be capable of actually killing another human being?

8. What does Ed tell his wife when she asks if he really wants to go on the canoe trip?

9. After finding the body of the man he shot and realizing he might have shot the wrong man, how does Ed feel?

10. How does the group feel after getting through their first whitewater safely?

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