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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Parts 1 and 2.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Fletcher say he knew as soon as he saw the Grand Canyon?
(a) His fear of heights was coming back.
(b) This place would make him famous.
(c) He would soon be hangliding over the Canyon.
(d) The way he saw things would change.

2. What does Fletcher say was a sacrilege when it interrupted the silence of the Grand Canyon?
(a) The bray of a donkey.
(b) The squawk of a blue jay.
(c) The honk of a horn.
(d) The screech of an owl.

3. What does Fletcher say he realized he might be doing when he hiked through the Grand Canyon?
(a) He would come as close to traveling back through time as possible.
(b) He would be fulfilling a dream from his early childhood.
(c) He would be making his last hiking trip.
(d) He would be following in the footsteps of hundreds of great hikers.

4. What are hanging terraces?
(a) Narrow sloping ledges.
(b) Porches at the Grand Canyon National Park Office that hang over the canyon.
(c) Hanging gardens.
(d) Walkways without guardrails

5. The Grand Canyon is found in the northern part of what state?
(a) Arizona.
(b) Colorado.
(c) New Mexico.
(d) Nevada.

Short Answer Questions

1. What lifestyle does Fletcher describe in a footnote in "Part 2, The Dream?"

2. What river still runs at the bottom of the Grand Canyon?

3. Who says, "I do not think I ever really considered that things might go seriously wrong"?

4. Part 1 is called "The Place." What is the place?

5. What did Fletcher say he saw even before he came close to the Grand Canyon?

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