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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 is overcome with a desire to
(a) Climb the mountain peaks in the distance
(b) Know and possess the scene around him
(c) Eat breakfast and walk the desert
(d) Trap the mice and return them to the desert

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

3. The only stream that flows perennially through the park is
(a) Pepper Creek
(b) A babbling creek behind his trailer
(c) A rushing stream of snow melt
(d) Too salty to be potable

4. The locals in Moab's bars do not become violent, perhaps because
(a) They are good Mormons
(b) They are afraid of one another
(c) They are humbled by nature
(d) The beer is weak

5. Edward Abbey is living in isolation,
(a) Twenty miles from another human
(b) Fifty miles from the city
(c) A hundred miles from his home
(d) Five miles from the ranger station

Short Answer Questions

1. April mornings in the desert are

2. Edward is able to hear, but not see

3. Edward Abbey lies like a snake on the edge of a dune to

4. The government survey crew came with plans to

5. Abbey wonders if a man could get used to

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