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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What makes the Great Salt Lake freezable?
(a) The influx of fresh water.
(b) All of these.
(c) The cold temperatures.
(d) The decreased salinity.

2. Where did Diane go swimming while she was still sick?
(a) Lake Powell.
(b) Utah Lake.
(c) Bear Lake.
(d) The Great Salt Lake.

3. Who wrote "God Sees the Truth but Waits"?
(a) Aristotle.
(b) Dostoyevsky.
(c) Plato.
(d) Tolstoy.

4. What did Brigham Young call the Great Basin?
(a) The New Jerusalem.
(b) The Zion.
(c) The Holy Land.
(d) The Promised Land.

5. Who was the outlaw referred to in Chapter 8?
(a) Terry Williams.
(b) Robert Redford.
(c) Butch Cassidy.
(d) The lake.

6. What did Diane spot at Bear River that was rare?
(a) Snow buntings.
(b) Bald eagles.
(c) Pacific gulls.
(d) Flamingos.

7. Which of these is a title Terry used for the Great Salt Lake?
(a) A friend in a strange place.
(b) A wild place of civilization.
(c) A symbol of God's power.
(d) A woman who refuses to be tamed.

8. How did the author describe her mother's chemotherapy treatments?
(a) Horrible.
(b) Hopeful.
(c) Strange.
(d) Miserable.

9. Why was the author surprised when her mother agreed to use chemotherapy?
(a) She had been refusing it.
(b) She didn't believe in it before.
(c) She was afraid of it.
(d) She had talked her sister out of it.

10. What kind of gulls were used as a chapter title?
(a) Sea Gulls.
(b) Albatross Gulls.
(c) Pacific Gulls.
(d) California Gulls.

11. What chance of survival did Diane have during radiation?
(a) 30%
(b) 50%
(c) 25%
(d) 40%

12. What separates the Bear River from the Snake River?
(a) A mountain range.
(b) A volcanic dam.
(c) A man made dike.
(d) A sandy plateau.

13. What did the author learn from her mother while she was sick?
(a) Solitude.
(b) Faith.
(c) Resistance.
(d) Perseverance.

14. When did the author usually speak to her mother?
(a) On the weekends.
(b) At night.
(c) In the afternoons.
(d) In the mornings.

15. Where did the author's mother have a tumor?
(a) Her back.
(b) Her abdomen.
(c) Her arm.
(d) Her head.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the author's family do for vacations when she was a child?

2. How long did Terry's mother's doctor want to put her on radiation?

3. How long did it take the author to get from her house to the airport?

4. In what season do the Great Salt Lake levels lower?

5. In 1985, half a million ____________________ were purchased.

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