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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Abbey is convinced that horses are
(a) Pack animals
(b) Meant to be broken
(c) Meant to be subdued
(d) Gregarious beings

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

4. When Abbey finally confronts Moon-Eye, he is
(a) Overly friendly and suspicious
(b) Gentle and kind to the horse
(c) Angry and frustrated
(d) In a hurry to get him in a rope

5. Moon-Eye's temperament was due to
(a) Inflammation of one of his eyes
(b) Having been separated from his mother as a colt
(c) Having been lost for so long
(d) Bad genes from his mother

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

7. Beyond the timberline Abbey observes
(a) Gathering stom clouds
(b) The pine forest
(c) Heavy snow
(d) The alpenglow

8. What reigns in the desert on this late-spring day is
(a) The wind
(b) The tourists
(c) The sun
(d) The clean air

9. Abbey sees the value of wilderness, in a political sense, as
(a) A remote place for the govenrment to set up new programs
(b) A base for resistance to central domination
(c) A military mecca
(d) An escape from the city for industry workers

10. The character Mackie is
(a) A Mormon from Utah
(b) An old friend of Abbey's
(c) A temporary replacement for Viviano
(d) A friend of the rangers'

11. Abbey describes the experience of noontime in the desert like
(a) An occult fantasy
(b) A religious experience
(c) A psychedelic drug experience
(d) A dark nightmare

12. Abbey likes the word, "Tukuhnikivats," which means
(a) Queen of the LaSals
(b) Where the Arches watch
(c) Home of the Utes
(d) Where the sun lingers

13. In July, the surrounding mountains are almost
(a) Invisible
(b) Covered with snow
(c) Completely free of snow
(d) Bare of snow

14. Abbey uses a piece of hollow cane to create a
(a) Siphon for getting water
(b) A digging tool
(c) Pipe for tobacco
(d) A new walking stick

15. Why does the sign instructing skiers to ski in a clockwise direction irk Edward Abbey?
(a) It is industrial tourism at its finest
(b) It is one more indication of freedom lost to government control
(c) He wishes people would ski only on the snow
(d) He feels people should ski in both directions

Short Answer Questions

1. The heat of the desert makes objects appear

2. Abbey gives us an idea of how he laces his conversations with tourists

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

4. To make it easier to maneuver the rubber raft, Abbey

5. Abbey wishes that the tourists would get out of their vehicles and

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