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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What concerns Rick about the condor's heart rate?
(a) That it is too high.
(b) That it is too strong.
(c) That it is too weak.
(d) That it is too slow.

2. What color is Lon's jacket?
(a) Blue.
(b) Black.
(c) Red.
(d) Green.

3. What does Rick hear when he approaches Carlile's camp?
(a) Someone crying.
(b) Carlile and Gunderson arguing.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Someone moaning.

4. How old is Rick's mother when Rick is born?
(a) 22.
(b) 33.
(c) 15.
(d) 18.

5. Whose death does Rick discuss with Lon?
(a) His brother.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father.
(d) His grandmother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Rick wonder if one can hang glide?

2. Who scares off the other birds from the carcass?

3. Why does Lon want to take Rick to Reno?

4. Where do the flyers find a thermal?

5. What do Lon and Rick see back at the camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Rick do on his third and fourth day hang gliding?

2. How does Rick feel when he hang glides with Lon the first time and what does Lon tell him to do? How does Rick feel after he is settled on the glider?

3. How does Rick hike in the Maze and what does he find there? Why is Lon excited when Rick returns from the maze?

4. What does Rick learn has happened with Lon?

5. What does Lon tell Rick he will do with Rick, what do they discover missing, what does Rick say about the story of Icarus and who do they think have stolen their missing items?

6. What does Rick finally tell Lon about himself?

7. How does Rick find Lon, and how does he rescue him?

8. Why does Lon call Rick Icarus, what does Rick ask about the cliffs and what is Lon's response?

9. What does Rick see when he is on the glider, and what problem does he encounter in the glider?

10. How does Lon catch M4?

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