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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rick find when he drives up a mountainous road?
(a) There is a small cabin at the end of the road.
(b) The road is very bumpy.
(c) The road is blocked.
(d) There are more trees there.

2. What does Rick see Lon doing?
(a) Watching something with binoculars.
(b) Drawing in his sketch pad.
(c) Whittling wood.
(d) Writing in his journal.

3. What does Rick tell his Blue Canyon social worker?
(a) The guards threaten him physically.
(b) He saw a guard take money from a maintenance worker.
(c) His roommate is insane.
(d) He is going to kill himself.

4. How long does Lon tell Rick condors have been alive as a species?
(a) He does not tell Rick anything about how long they have been alive.
(b) Since the last ice age.
(c) For three thousand years.
(d) Since life began on earth.

5. What does Rick steal to help him leave the camp?
(a) A motorcycle.
(b) A hang glider.
(c) A mountain bike.
(d) The second truck.

6. Why does the man say Rick won't die of heatstroke if he walks to town?
(a) The man will give him a wide brim hat and water.
(b) It is October.
(c) It is December.
(d) Rick is young and strong.

7. What sort of land does the government offer Nuke for grazing?
(a) A desert.
(b) Lush, tropical land.
(c) Better land.
(d) Wasteland.

8. What does Killian tell Rick at dinner?
(a) That guards want older kids to beat up Rick.
(b) That he likes to eat pie.
(c) That the guards like Rick.
(d) That his mother is coming for him.

9. Where does Rick fly in his dreams his second night?
(a) Over the canyons.
(b) Over the detention center.
(c) No where in particular.
(d) Over the mountains.

10. What does the judge think when Rick says he doesn't know why he did what he did?
(a) That Rick is mocking the judge.
(b) That Rick is lying.
(c) That Rick is mentally challenged.
(d) That Rick has no conscience.

11. Why does Rick not follow his social worker's suggestion?
(a) He has already done too much community service.
(b) He doesn't understand what she is saying.
(c) His pride is hurt.
(d) His probation officer won't talk to him.

12. Who does Rick suggest join him and Lon?
(a) Sky.
(b) The sheriff.
(c) M4.
(d) Nuke.

13. Who is Maverick?
(a) M64.
(b) M4.
(c) M24.
(d) M1.

14. What does Rick learn listening to the two men who have come to the camp?
(a) Lon has been hired to watch endangered vultures.
(b) Lon is a criminal.
(c) The sheriff is looking for Rick.
(d) The two men plan to rob the gas station.

15. Where does Rick plan to hide out at Blue Canyon?
(a) In the TV area.
(b) In his room.
(c) In the laundry.
(d) In the library and the gym.

Short Answer Questions

1. When will the man at the camp be leaving?

2. Who raised Rick until Rick was ten?

3. How does Rick get his third ride?

4. Why does the judge send him to Blue Canyon?

5. What does Lon ask Rick to do when Lon gets a calve out of the cooler?

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