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

2. What does Ed like to do for his friends?
(a) Give them a handicap when they play golf.
(b) Play practical jokes.
(c) Take them for a drink on their birthdays.
(d) Make collages.

3. What kind of musical instrument does the albino boy, Lonnie, play?
(a) A fiddle.
(b) A guitar.
(c) Spoons.
(d) A banjo.

4. Which of the men invited to take the canoe trip is more than happy to agree?
(a) None of them.
(b) All of them.
(c) Ed Gentry
(d) Drew Ballinger.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. While driving to Oree, what does Lewis tell Ed?

2. What kind of business does Ed Gentry own with a partner?

3. What kind of pictures does Ed think resulted from the Kitt's photo shoot?

4. What does the Kitt's model do during the photo shoot that gives Ed a deep male thrill?

5. Alone in his office after the luncheon during which the canoe trip was proposed, what depresses Ed?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Why does the Aintry sheriff's deputy react so negatively to the men's story?

4. In the After section, why does Ed go to Bobby's room at Biddiford's?

5. Why are Ed and Bobby paired in the canoe on the second day of the canoe trip instead of Ed and Drew, as happened the first day?

6. From where does Bobby Trippe come?

7. How does Ed react to the eventual filling in of the dammed area of the river?

8. Describe the mood that comes over Ed when he returns to his office and is alone with his thoughts.

9. Describe the map of the Cuhulawsassee River that Lewis shows to the men at the luncheon before the canoe trip.

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

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