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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15 Tukuhnikivats, the Island in the Desert.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 uncrowded openness
(d) The danger in the plant forms

2. Under Abbey's ramada on a sunny day the temperature of 110 degrees is
(a) Too hot to breathe
(b) Hotter than inside the trailer
(c) Hot enough for heastroke
(d) Comfortable and pleasant

3. Abbey's concerns about preserving wilderness in this chapter are connected with
(a) His attitude toward vegetarianism
(b) His lack of patriotism
(c) His fear of civilization
(d) His concern about personal liberties

4. A man is shouting from the shore to Abbey and Newcomb about
(a) Something private to Abbey and Newcomb
(b) Something important to Abbey and Newcomb
(c) Something the reader never learns
(d) How boaters are not allowed

5. Roy Scobie is a rancher obsessed with
(a) His ranch hands
(b) His ranch
(c) His cattle
(d) His own death

Short Answer Questions

1. Abbey sees the value of wilderness, in a political sense, as

2. Edward describes the colors of dawn in terms of

3. Edward attaches a red bandanna to a ridgepole in honor of

4. The gopher snakes watch over Abbey like

5. When raising his American flag, Edward wishes

(see the answer key)

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