Desert Solitaire Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Desert Solitaire Test | Final Test - Easy

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 134 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Abbey is wistful about leaving behind
(a) His cozy trailer
(b) This valley of paradox
(c) His government pickup
(d) His job

2. As a true patriot, Abbey encourages Waterman to
(a) Fight in the war proudly
(b) Find himself
(c) Go back to his real life
(d) Hide from the draft

3. Abbey admits that he, too, is a member of
(a) A civilized tribe
(b) The local grange
(c) Freeway traffic
(d) The human rat race

4. Edward Abbey and Johnny try to
(a) Drag the man up to the coroner's vehicle
(b) Retrace the man's activities before he died
(c) Console each other over the man's death
(d) Find vultures circling

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

6. Moon-Eye rejected humans when he was subjected to
(a) Human food
(b) Having to go all day without water
(c) A violent beating
(d) Being ridden too long

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

8. Abbey cancels his plans for
(a) A trip to the airport
(b) A ceremonious farewell
(c) One more hike in the rocks
(d) A final campfire

9. Abbey can be said to be a high-level
(a) Cynic
(b) Atheist
(c) Mormon
(d) Conservative

10. Abbey feels the only real paradise is
(a) Moab, Utah
(b) The fantasy of skiing in unison
(c) The here and now, and the real earth
(d) The mythical Garden of Eden

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

12. Fred Burkett's favorite hiding place to watch for speeders was
(a) Sawed down by Abbey
(b) Leveled by vandals
(c) Now obsolete
(d) Blown over in the wind

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

14. The desert winds of May have
(a) Cleaned out the flowers and debris
(b) Burned the green things to saffron and auburn
(c) Dried the river to a stream
(d) Brought huge thunderclouds

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The difference between the desert and other geographic areas is its

2. Floating through the rapids leaves the two boaters

3. Abbey gets sidetracked to Havasu on his way to

4. The Havsupai are by nature

5. Why does the sign instructing skiers to ski in a clockwise direction irk Edward Abbey?

(see the answer keys)

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