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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rick notice Gunderson doing?
(a) Filling a small box with metal cylinders.
(b) Planting dynamite.
(c) Fighting with Carlile.
(d) Digging a trench.

2. What does Rick have to stop himself from grabbing?
(a) The rudders.
(b) The wing struts.
(c) Lon's pack.
(d) The control bar.

3. Where does Rick figure he will hide if there is trouble?
(a) The water tower.
(b) The cellar.
(c) The Maze.
(d) Jasper Canyon.

4. How high are the fliers when they drift downward?
(a) 14,000 feet.
(b) 22,000 feet.
(c) 10,000 feet.
(d) 5,000 feet.

5. At what altitude does Rick start feeling cold?
(a) 22,000 feet.
(b) 11,000 feet.
(c) 5,000 feet.
(d) 15,000 feet.

6. Where does Rick take the spotting telescope?
(a) Lizard Rock.
(b) The Maze.
(c) Bryce Canyon.
(d) The prairie dog town.

7. What do Lon and Rick find at Carlile's camp?
(a) It is deserted.
(b) A dead condor.
(c) A dead golden eagle.
(d) A dead bald eagle.

8. What does Lon observe?
(a) Carlile hiking across the canyon floor.
(b) The condors.
(c) Carlile climbing down the canyon wall.
(d) A golden eagle pair.

9. How does Rick make it possible for Lon to climb out of the canyon?
(a) Rick hammers spikes into the canyon wall.
(b) Rick drops over the parachute reins.
(c) Rick ties a rope to a boulder.
(d) Rick decides for them to hang glide out of the canyon.

10. Who scares off the other birds from the carcass?
(a) A golden eagle.
(b) A turkey vulture.
(c) A bald eagle.
(d) Maverick.

11. Why does Lon want a shovel, a saw, plastic buckets, a lantern, and bird feed?
(a) To show Rick how to catch wild turkeys.
(b) It is not specified.
(c) To set up a bird sanctuary.
(d) To catch maverick.

12. Where does the pit bull grab hold?
(a) On Rick's harness bag.
(b) On Rick's shoe.
(c) On the hang glider struts.
(d) On Rick's leg.

13. Who flies to the carcass Lon and Rick left?
(a) Vultures.
(b) Crows.
(c) Ravens.
(d) The condor.

14. When does Lon decide to return to try to catch Maverick?
(a) At noon the next day.
(b) The next morning.
(c) In the dark.
(d) He is unsure.

15. In which direction does Maverick fly when Lon tries to catch him?
(a) North.
(b) South.
(c) East.
(d) West.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Carlile claim he has been doing?

2. What does Lon reveal to Rick about Lon's past?

3. How old is Rick's mother when Rick is born?

4. What does Rick unsuccessfully try to do?

5. Of what does the judge remind Rick?.

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