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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Edward wants to stop attributing human qualities to nature, which is called
(a) Anthropomorphism
(b) Personification
(c) Characterization
(d) Metamophization

2. Edward is able to hear, but not see
(a) Highway traffic
(b) Mice and rats
(c) Distant hawks
(d) Canyon wrens and mourning doves

3. Thunderstorms come to the high desert in
(a) September 15
(b) The middle of spring
(c) July and August
(d) The first of October

4. Since the visit from the government workers, The Arches Park has
(a) Closed down to outsiders
(b) Turned into a village
(c) Become a parking lot for RVs
(d) Grown into a huge tourist attraction

5. Wood is petrified by
(a) Pressure from cold springs
(b) Hot silica-bearing waters
(c) Quicksand
(d) Salt springs erosion

6. Roy Scobie is known for being frugal with
(a) Food
(b) Water
(c) Wives
(d) Time

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

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

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

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

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

12. The difference between Navajos and other poverty-stricken cultures is
(a) They are inadequate by national standards
(b) They are overseen by the BIA
(c) They must report their medical services to the government
(d) Their population growth is monitored by the state

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

14. Why was the government interested in the Arches national park area?
(a) It provides a natural bridge to the east
(b) Death Valley is a high security area for testing
(c) Its wealth of silver mines
(d) It is a source of uranium

15. We learn that Abbey was raised
(a) In the backwoods of the Allegheny Mountains
(b) In the mountains of New Mexico
(c) In the foothillls of the Rocky Mountains
(d) In the Texas hill country

Short Answer Questions

1. Roy Scobie is a rancher obsessed with

2. When raising his American flag, Edward wishes

3. The yucca plant is pollinated by

4. A medicinal property of the buckbrush is that of

5. Abbey had no fear of drowning in the Havasupai Canyon floor's stream because

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