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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Rick unsuccessfully try to do?
(a) Pick up Jasper.
(b) Fly over the Humvee.
(c) Land on the canyon floor.
(d) Break out of the thermal.

2. What time do Lon and Rick take up positions at the Doll House formation?
(a) A half hour before dawn.
(b) About 9 a.m. the next morning.
(c) Around midnight.
(d) They decide not to come back to the Doll House formation.

3. What does Rick hear in the distance hours later?
(a) An explosion.
(b) A car horn.
(c) Several condors.
(d) Gunshots.

4. What is Pandora?
(a) The radio call sign Josh uses.
(b) The radio call sign Lon uses.
(c) A Pacific hurricane.
(d) A female California condor.

5. What does Rick realize Carlile has stolen when Rick gets back to camp?
(a) Guns.
(b) Gas.
(c) Camera.
(d) The truck.

6. Where does Rick wonder if one can hang glide?
(a) In a city.
(b) On a prairie.
(c) In the Grand Canyon.
(d) In the clouds.

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

8. Where does Rick believe Carlile's stolen artifacts are?
(a) Lizard Rock.
(b) Jasper Canyon.
(c) Hemetite Bluff.
(d) Jone's Bluff.

9. Of what does the judge remind Rick?.
(a) His grandfather.
(b) His grandmother.
(c) His step father
(d) A condor.

10. Who does Rick think may speak a good word for him to the judge?
(a) His step father.
(b) Mr. B.
(c) Carlile.
(d) Josh.

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

12. What will happen if Maverick flies further east?
(a) He will be subjected to accidental shooting.
(b) He will be lost.
(c) He will be able to rejoin his group.
(d) He will be unable to find water.

13. How does Rick indicate his desire to land?
(a) Tapping on Lon's right shoulder.
(b) Shifting his weight to the left.
(c) Yelling in Lon's ear.
(d) Thumb down.

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

15. When does Josh arrive?
(a) Mid-morning.
(b) Midnight.
(c) He is not able to come there.
(d) Very early the next morning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What color is Lon's jacket?

2. Where does the pit bull grab hold?

3. Who has a parachute?

4. How does Rick make it possible for Lon to climb out of the canyon?

5. How can one access the cave where Gunderson is?

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