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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Edward Abbey's solution to preventing rattlesnakes is
(a) To shoot them with his British Webley .45
(b) To scare them away with his walking stick
(c) To capture and domesticate a gopher snake
(d) To feed them the mice in his trailer

2. Edward Abbey lies like a snake on the edge of a dune to
(a) To feel like a plant, himself
(b) Study the flowers like a snake
(c) To rest from the power of the wind
(d) Feel the wind as a snake would

3. The clarity of the desert is illustrated in the desert's flora and fauna
(a) The heat and rock
(b) The lack of life
(c) The danger in the plant forms
(d) The uncrowded openness

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

5. The unexpected guests in Edward's new home include
(a) Mice
(b) Insects
(c) Spiders
(d) Bats

Short Answer Questions

1. A civil engineer believes a road will help

2. Edward describes the colors of dawn in terms of

3. Edward wants to stop attributing human qualities to nature, which is called

4. Abbey calls the rampant development of national parks

5. The small cloud on Abbey's horizon is

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