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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 was lost in the wreck in the Canyon of Lodore?
(a) Barometers.
(b) Ammunition.
(c) Thermometers.
(d) Sextons.

2. In Chapter IV, east-west cliffs are formed by what?
(a) Erosion.
(b) Differential degradation.
(c) Rivers.
(d) Glacier carving.

3. What cliffs are located between the Pink Cliffs?
(a) The White Cliffs.
(b) The Brown Cliffs.
(c) The Red Cliffs.
(d) The Grey Cliffs.

4. Some of the rock displacements in Chapter IV are flexures instead of ______.
(a) Breaks.
(b) Fractures.
(c) Carvings.
(d) Rock slides.

5. What is the cause of the north-south lines in between the cliffs and plateaus in Chapter IV?
(a) A volcano.
(b) Faults.
(c) A glacier.
(d) Erosion.

Short Answer Questions

1. What divides the Plateau Province?

2. Where did the Apache and Navajo Indian tribes live?

3. What obstacle did the group encounter on June 1st?

4. What did the men do at night on June 8th?

5. What animal is found in the great timber region of Arizona?

Short Essay Questions

1. Powell took ten men with him on the expedition down the Colorado. Describe one of these men.

2. What is the Tewan Plateau?

3. What were the names of the boats in Powell's journey?

4. What is the Mogollon Escarpment?

5. Describe the high region of the Colorado River Valley.

6. What piece of equipment was lost in the wreck at Disaster Falls and how was it retrieved?

7. What is important about Fremont's Peak?

8. How did the group proceed when there were rapids?

9. What happened at camp on June 16th, resulting in the moving of camp down shore and the loss of several items?

10. Describe the wreck at Disaster Falls.

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