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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. To make it easier to maneuver the rubber raft, Abbey
(a) Keeps one hand outside the boat
(b) Leans back against the stern seats
(c) Ties his boat to Newcomb's
(d) Gets hold of a second paddle

2. Abbey's reaction to the man's manner of death is one of
(a) Congratulatory envy
(b) Fear of going the same way
(c) Anger for his carelessness
(d) Revulsion at the sight

3. Abbey decides to climb Tukuhnikivats
(a) In his pickup
(b) By himself
(c) With his horse
(d) With his camping partner

4. After Moon-Eye rushed Abbey and ran fifty feet away, Abbey waited on him for
(a) Through the entire evening
(b) The rest of the afternoon
(c) A full hour
(d) A few minutes longer

5. A large influx of tourists to the park is marked by
(a) Labor Day
(b) The end of spring
(c) Fourth of July
(d) Memorial Day

6. A man is shouting from the shore to Abbey and Newcomb about
(a) Something private to Abbey and Newcomb
(b) How boaters are not allowed
(c) Something the reader never learns
(d) Something important to Abbey and Newcomb

7. The beautiful flower Larkspur can be
(a) Used for herbal teas
(b) Made into healing salve
(c) Deadly for cattle
(d) Poisonous to humans

8. The German who befriended Abbey was, in Abbey's opinion,
(a) A typical, common Nazi
(b) A naieve German
(c) A Zionist
(d) A crazy Bavarian

9. Abbey's reference to the beavers building another dam is really about
(a) The tourists who have jammed up the river
(b) The busy park rangers
(c) The federal government's new reservoir
(d) The beavers that were imported into the park

10. Abbey gives us an idea of how he laces his conversations with tourists
(a) With warnings
(b) With humor
(c) With disgust
(d) With anger

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

12. In the middle of the day on the desert, most of the birds
(a) Huddling in groups for shade
(b) Are busy looking for water
(c) Are taking advantage of slow moving insects
(d) Are muted and inactive

13. We can assume that Abbey decides to set off to the mountains
(a) Because he is sick of the trailer and ramada
(b) To escape the government officials' visit
(c) For a break from the August heat
(d) He needs to test out his pickup on the bumpy road

14. The desert flowers in the month of May have
(a) Flourished and are thriving
(b) Finally blossomed
(c) Been overwatered and are drowning
(d) Withered and gone to seed

15. Abbey studies the Colorado's tributaries on
(a) A topigraphical map of the US
(b) A globe
(c) A geological map of the Grand Canyon
(d) A road map of Utah

Short Answer Questions

1. Abbey wants his readers to know that the desert is

2. The pika is an animal that lives and feeds on

3. Abbey is wistful about leaving behind

4. Abbey admits that he, too, is a member of

5. On his trip to capture Moon-Eye, Abbey ate his lunch in the shade of

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