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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Diane Dixon Tempest in 1971?
(a) She got cancer.
(b) She had a disabled child.
(c) She was mobbed.
(d) She got an STD.

2. Who originally had the idea to pump the lake's water?
(a) Brigham Young.
(b) Joseph Smith.
(c) Wilford Woodfruff.
(d) John Taylor.

3. What was the third option for when the lake exceeded the limits?
(a) Store the water.
(b) Pump the water.
(c) Breach the causeway.
(d) Diking the water.

4. Where does the phalarope get food?
(a) The bottom of the water.
(b) Dead carcasses.
(c) Trees.
(d) The shore.

5. What did the author say she gauged her life by?
(a) Seasons.
(b) Culture.
(c) Children.
(d) Birds.

6. What is the name of the author's brother?
(a) Hank.
(b) Henry.
(c) Howard.
(d) Hal.

7. What was Diane always at one with according to her daughter?
(a) Her soul.
(b) Nature.
(c) Religion.
(d) Pain.

8. What did Terry want to communicate with in the Pink Flamingos chapter?
(a) Her God.
(b) Her mother.
(c) The land.
(d) A friend.

9. What did the author compare the Great Salt Lake to?
(a) A tea kettle.
(b) A cup.
(c) A dinner plate.
(d) A pot.

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

11. What was the second option when the lake exceeded the limits?
(a) Store the water.
(b) Pumping the water.
(c) Diking the water.
(d) Divert the Water.

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

13. What would have been threatened if the lake water were pumped?
(a) The mineral levels.
(b) The desert dwelling birds.
(c) The Air Force shooting range.
(d) The natural foliage of the area.

14. Why did the author go somewhere after her mother's surgery?
(a) To give her mother privacy.
(b) To pay her respects.
(c) To collect her thoughts.
(d) To pray.

15. Where was the author working during her mother's chemotherapy treatments?
(a) A museum.
(b) A refuge.
(c) A church.
(d) A college.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of gulls were used as a chapter title?

2. How many options were available when the lake exceeded the limits?

3. Where did the author go after her mother's surgery?

4. How does the author's brother get out of church one day?

5. How does the author describe the Great Salt Lake?

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