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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Abbey wonders if a man could get used to
(a) Digging for water
(b) Going without water
(c) Melting snow for water
(d) Drinking from Salt Creek

2. Vernon Pick managed to sufficiently purify his water by
(a) Running water through sand before drinking
(b) Filtering the water through gravel
(c) Pouring water through thick brush before drinking
(d) Turning his canteen into a charcoal filter

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

4. Abbey compares cultures of Indians and cowboys in that
(a) Both are reduced to providng a curiosity for tourists
(b) Both originated in the old West
(c) Both are thriving in the face of adversity
(d) They continue to fight among themselves

5. The yucca plant is pollinated by
(a) A butterfly
(b) A bee
(c) A moth
(d) A hummingbird

6. What is the one clue we have that the lawyer who approached Mrs. Husk was representing the government?
(a) His authorization to offer large amounts of money to her
(b) His knowledge of her husband's death
(c) His cufflinks
(d) The emblem on his lighter

7. Abbey calls the rampant development of national parks
(a) Industrial Tourism
(b) Nationalism
(c) Reclamation
(d) Restitution

8. Salty water cannot sustain human life because
(a) It causes severe head pain
(b) It causes the body to become even more dehydrated
(c) It shrinks the arteries
(d) It mixes with blood and makes it too salty

9. Onion Spring, northeast of Moab, is
(a) Poison with arsenic
(b) Clear and drinkable
(c) Full of gold
(d) Slightly salty but good

10. Some ancient pictographs in the rocks depict
(a) Semi-human and super-human people
(b) Flying dinosaurs
(c) Space aliens that look like humans
(d) Violent acts of nature

11. Abbey feels if you have reached the point of needing moisture from the barrel cactus
(a) You are doomed
(b) You have reached the pinnacle of survival
(c) You are ready for life as a pioneer
(d) You are a true cowboy

12. A medicinal property of the buckbrush is that of
(a) Mint
(b) Quinine
(c) Saponaria
(d) Disinfectant

13. Abbey had no fear of drowning in the Havasupai Canyon floor's stream because
(a) It was salty and made him bouyant
(b) It was only a mirage
(c) He intended to drink it all
(d) It was only ankle deep

14. The irony of Roy Scobie's death was that
(a) He was carefree about life
(b) His death was harder than he had feared
(c) He fell off of a horse like he expected
(d) What he feared the most actually took place

15. The sounds of the mourning doves suggests to Edward
(a) Their oneness with the other desert creatures
(b) An attempt to restore a lost communion
(c) Their sadness over the isolation of the desert
(d) An attempt to communicate with him

Short Answer Questions

1. The Moab Valley in the distance lies between

2. Wood is petrified by

3. Water has not created the arches, but they are instead carved by

4. Geodes are prevalent in these areas. They are

5. What is Abbey saying about the area in the Graham and Husk story?

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