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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long did Fletcher plan for his journey to take?
(a) 2 months.
(b) 1 year.
(c) 6 months.
(d) 1 week.

2. What is the current age estimate of the third layer of the Grand Canyon?
(a) 275 million years.
(b) 350 million years.
(c) 500 thousand years.
(d) 800 years.

3. Who drove Fletcher to the parking area at the edge of the Rim?
(a) His father.
(b) Colin Fletcher.
(c) John Wesley Powell.
(d) Lorenzo Sinyala.

4. What is the current age estimate of the eighth layer of the Grand Canyon.
(a) 5 million years.
(b) 800 thousand years.
(c) 750 million years.
(d) 1 to 2 billion years.

5. What was Fletcher's only concern about the proposed trip?
(a) That he would be too lonely.
(b) That it would be physically impossible.
(c) That his family would not support him.
(d) That he would drown.

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

7. How does "Part 1, The Place" begin?
(a) With information on traveling through Arizona.
(b) With facts about tourist destinations in the United States.
(c) With advice on hiking.
(d) With facts about the Grand Canyon.

8. Where did Fletcher's journey begin?
(a) The Alamo.
(b) The Rio Grande.
(c) Hualpai Hilltop.
(d) The Grand Ravine.

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

10. Approximately how thick is the first layer of the Grand Canyon?
(a) 5 feet.
(b) 20 feet.
(c) 400 feet.
(d) 1000 feet.

11. What did Fletcher say he saw even before he came close to the Grand Canyon?
(a) Color.
(b) Tourists.
(c) Jagged cliffs.
(d) Space.

12. What part of nature is not described in "Part 2, The Dream?"
(a) The beauty of the Grand Canyon.
(b) The immenseness and timelessness of the Rim.
(c) The peace of the ocean.
(d) Various rocks.

13. What is another name for the Erosion Surface?
(a) The Rim.
(b) The Great Unconformity.
(c) The Grand Façade.
(d) The Supai Formation.

14. Approximately how thick is the third layer of the Grand Canyon?
(a) 1000 feet.
(b) 20 feet.
(c) 200 feet.
(d) 750 feet.

15. What type of graphic is found at the beginning of "Part 3, The Journey?"
(a) A chart of vegetation found in the Grand Canyon.
(b) A map showing a simplified profile of the geology of the Grand Canyon.
(c) A bar graph showing the change in tourism at the Grand Canyon.
(d) A chart of wild life in the desert.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Fletcher's idea was first fully formed, what doubts bugged him?

3. What material makes up the second layer of the Grand Canyon?

4. What were some of the plans for his trip that Fletcher details in "Part 2, The Dream?"

5. What is considered the top layer of the Grand Canyon?

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