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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. Where once in the Arches Park there were only used newspapers to catch up on the news,
(a) There is a local newscaster at the station
(b) There are now televisions in recreational vehicles
(c) There is a movie theatre
(d) There is a computerized subway

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

3. Thunderstorms come to the high desert in
(a) The middle of spring
(b) July and August
(c) September 15
(d) The first of October

4. The government survey crew came with plans to
(a) Lay out a new road into the Arches
(b) Rebuild the ranger station
(c) Build a new winter resort
(d) Construct additional campsites

5. In late summer the quietness, or somnolence of the desert leaves Abbey feeling
(a) Hungry for the ocean
(b) Tired of the heat
(c) A certain madness
(d) Haunted by voices

Short Answer Questions

1. An arroyo seco is

2. Abbey calls the rampant development of national parks

3. Abbey feels if you have reached the point of needing moisture from the barrel cactus

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

5. The man who has initiated the search is the deceased man's

(see the answer key)

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