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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 The Dead Man at Grandview Point.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Onion Spring, northeast of Moab, is
(a) Full of gold
(b) Poison with arsenic
(c) Slightly salty but good
(d) Clear and drinkable

2. Salty water cannot sustain human life because
(a) It causes the body to become even more dehydrated
(b) It causes severe head pain
(c) It mixes with blood and makes it too salty
(d) It shrinks the arteries

3. The small cloud on Abbey's horizon is
(a) Unemployment
(b) Progress
(c) Prostitutes
(d) Homebrew

4. Abbey is polemic about
(a) Killing off the wolves
(b) Birds of prey being destroyed
(c) Not distroying our national parks
(d) Improving the space station

5. Abbey calls the rampant development of national parks
(a) Nationalism
(b) Industrial Tourism
(c) Restitution
(d) Reclamation

Short Answer Questions

1. Since the visit from the government workers, The Arches Park has

2. Visiting Moab on Wednesdays, Edward Abbey deduces that the men in the beer joints have been

3. Edward Abbey filled his canteen in the Needles country

4. Why did Abbey's friend from Cleveland think the desert would be a better place if it had water?

5. Thunderstorms come to the high desert in

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