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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Besides money, a reason for developing the parks is
(a) To explore the minerals and ores in the ground
(b) To accommodate a burgeoning population
(c) To allow closer inspection of nature
(d) The cities are growing rapidly

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

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

5. The reason for the growth of Indian population in the southwest is due to
(a) Stronger morals
(b) Vitamin supplements
(c) Pediatricians
(d) Medical science

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Roy Scobie is known for being frugal with

3. Abbey sees as a nuisance the presence in the desert of

4. Edward describes the colors of dawn in terms of

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain why many of the petroglyphs are found in caves too high for us to reach.

2. Why does Abbey kill a wild rabbit?

3. Abbey seems to jump back and forth in time in his book. Where in this chapter does that first become obvious?

4. Discuss Abbey's relationship with the natural world as he watches the stars.

5. The author has arrived in Utah, having come from New Mexico. How different is the terrain in this new place from what he is accustomed to?

6. Why does Abbey decide not to kill the rattlesnake under his doorstep?

7. What is Viviano Jacquez's problem?

8. What does Abbey mean by "pox vobiscum," and "swinish politics?"

9. How does the author project his own sensibilities onto the doves that he hears calling? Why?

10. What does Abbey suggest should be done about the erosion of national parks?

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