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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. Abbey is paid a visit by
(a) Firemen from the nearby forest
(b) The local water delivery company
(c) Rangers from the Forest Service
(d) Other Parks Service employees

2. Ten miles away past the highway, Abbey can see
(a) Mesa of Moab
(b) The Arches Mesa
(c) Dead Horse Mesa
(d) Salt Creek Mesa

3. Abbey says, after a million years of neglect,
(a) The Park has worn down to nothing
(b) The sandstone arches have dissolved
(c) People have taken all the animals from the wilderness
(d) Progress has come to the Arches

4. A civil engineer believes a road will help
(a) To get deeper into the wilderness
(b) To develop the property for homes
(c) To accommodate more tourists
(d) To make it easier to get to Moab

5. Abbey describes the voice of the desert
(a) Moaning and crying
(b) Whirling and shrieking
(c) Rising to a demented howl
(d) Screaming through the cracks

Short Answer Questions

1. Edward Abbey's garden is

2. Lloyd Pierson is

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

4. Abbey calls the rampant development of national parks

5. Edward's new home is a simple

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