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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 Terra Incognita: Into the Maze.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Abbey is adamant about the Navajos' inability to adapt to
(a) The highway system
(b) The reservation
(c) New age dancing
(d) The American middle class

2. What is Abbey saying about the area in the Graham and Husk story?
(a) That nature is far more powerful than man
(b) That a child was killed unnecesssarily
(c) That not all men are equal
(d) That greed will kill people

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

4. "Apache Tears" are actually
(a) Crystals found in obscure caves
(b) Arrowheads made from obsidian
(c) Hidden crystals in oval rocks
(d) Dripping springs from the mountains

5. Abbey suggests to Waterman that, perhaps, like a German poet, we humans
(a) Become lost in our thoughts
(b) Become more concerned with the naming than the things named
(c) Do not exist without names
(d) Are unchangeable

Short Answer Questions

1. Under Abbey's ramada on a sunny day the temperature of 110 degrees is

2. The heat of the desert makes objects appear

3. A badge gives Edward Abbey the authority to

4. Abbey has been promised by a Mormon woman that he

5. Abbey sees as a nuisance the presence in the desert of

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