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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the area directly above the seventh layer of the Grand Canyon called?
(a) The Grand Trench.
(b) The Red Wall.
(c) The Tonto Platform.
(d) The Rim.

2. What river still runs at the bottom of the Grand Canyon?
(a) The Colorado River.
(b) The Gila River.
(c) The Rio Grande.
(d) The Mississippi River.

3. What places were presumably named for a member of Lorenzo Sinyala's family?
(a) Sinyala Trail and Sinyala Plateau.
(b) Mount Sinyala and Sinyala Canyon.
(c) Lorenzo Lake and Sinyala Creek.
(d) Lorenzo Trail and Sinyala Ravine.

4. Whom does Fletcher describe at the beginning of "Chapter 3, Interlude?"
(a) The Havasupai Indians.
(b) The tourists.
(c) His family.
(d) The park rangers.

5. What information was not sought by Fletcher before beginning his trip?
(a) Information about trails.
(b) Information about the possibility of attacks by wild boar.
(c) Information about the existence of water sources.
(d) Information about weather.

6. What did the note found in Fletcher's care package say?
(a) Jim Bailey would arrive in Bass Camp when Fletcher was due to arrive.
(b) There would be no more care packages.
(c) Fletcher's wife loved him.
(d) Fletcher would need to remain in Bass Camp one week to wait for supplies.

7. What material makes up the seventh layer of the Grand Canyon?
(a) Tapeats sandstone.
(b) Marble.
(c) Limestone.
(d) Granite.

8. Fletcher says while studying the Grand Canyon he realized the silence there was not a timeless one as he first thought. How does he define it instead?
(a) "Not a silence at all but the beautiful noise of nature."
(b) "A silence established by an abundance of rock."
(c) "A silence built of the seconds that had ticked away, eon after eon."
(d) "A silence of the future."

9. What advice did Lorenzo Sinyala offer to Fletcher?
(a) Sound advice about marriage.
(b) Sound advice about walking long distances.
(c) Sound advice about escaping a bear attack.
(d) Sound advice regarding the downward trail and the Supai village.

10. How does Fletcher describe the Grand Canyon?
(a) "A chasm . . . like a gigantic and impossible desert crevasse."
(b) "An upside-down mountain wonder."
(c) "Huge stacks of multicolored rock."
(d) "A gigantic hole in the desert plateau."

11. What is the current age estimate of the second layer of the Grand Canyon?
(a) 500 million years.
(b) 250 million years.
(c) 10 million years.
(d) 50 thousand years.

12. What are layers 4 through 6 of the Grand Canyon called?
(a) The Great Unconformity.
(b) The Rim.
(c) Esplanade.
(d) The Red Wall.

13. What material comprises the sixth layer of the Grand Canyon?
(a) Silt.
(b) Sandstone.
(c) Quartz.
(d) Bright Angel Shale.

14. What did "Part II, The Dream" describe?
(a) Fletcher's dream to become a famous explorer.
(b) A nightmare Fletcher had in which he fell from a high cliff.
(c) A childhood dream of Fletcher's in which he visited an American Indian village.
(d) Fletcher's pans to study the Grand Canyon and travel it alone.

15. How does Fletcher describe the state of the Grand Canyon at the time the book was written?
(a) A dying canyon.
(b) Finished changing.
(c) Nearing destruction in a few years.
(d) Still changing.

Short Answer Questions

1. Approximately how thick is the fifth layer of the Grand Canyon?

2. What is the area directly underneath the seventh layer of the Grand Canyon?

3. Why was the place where Fletcher arrived in "Chapter 4, Challenge" such a relief to his spirit?

4. What material makes up the first and youngest layer of the Grand Canyon?

5. What does the book say geologists believe formed the Grand Canyon?

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