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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who usually arrives 15 minutes after Sarvis has burned down the billboards?
(a) The highway commissioners.
(b) The police.
(c) The billboard owners.
(d) The advertisers

2. What does Hayduke suggest he can use a steel bar to move?
(a) Bodies.
(b) Trucks.
(c) Boulders.
(d) Oil tanks.

3. What kind of animal does Seldom Seen offer to shoot?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Bulls.
(c) Cougars.
(d) Cows.

4. What did Abbey major in at university?
(a) Spanish.
(b) Psychology.
(c) Philosophy.
(d) English.

5. Where does Seldom Seen live?
(a) Texas.
(b) Arizona.
(c) Mississippi.
(d) Utah.

6. What do Sarvis and Abbzug stop to listen to?
(a) A song.
(b) A lake.
(c) The birds.
(d) A river.

7. Who does Abbzug think about as she meditates?
(a) Doc Sarvis.
(b) Seldom Smith.
(c) Abbzug.
(d) Bishop Love.

8. What has Doc Sarvis named his task of burning billboards?
(a) A beautification project.
(b) Global war.
(c) A hate project.
(d) Inverted advertizing.

9. What kind of car does Hayduke steal?
(a) A delivery truck.
(b) A tank.
(c) A patrol car.
(d) An ambulance.

10. What has caused the river to become a tame glacier?
(a) The Glen Canyon Dam.
(b) Dumped oil.
(c) A fish farm.
(d) Too many boats.

11. How does Hayduke respond to Smith throwing a shoe at him?
(a) He screams.
(b) He hits Smith.
(c) He grabs his gun.
(d) He grabs the steering wheel.

12. Where was Edward Abbey raised?
(a) New York.
(b) San Francisco.
(c) The Colorado Mountains.
(d) The Appalachian Mountains.

13. In what war did Abbey serve?
(a) Iraq.
(b) Korea.
(c) World War II.
(d) Vietnam.

14. What does Hayduke attempt to do at a bar?
(a) Get very drunk.
(b) Start a fight.
(c) Recruit demonstrators.
(d) Talk to women.

15. What do all the men desire to destroy?
(a) A police station.
(b) A dam.
(c) A guard house.
(d) A bridge.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Bonnie Abbzug help Doc burn the billboards?

2. What does the group hide across the canyons of southeast Utah and southern Arizona?

3. What does the group decide to set a mine on?

4. What reason does Abbey give for writing novels on ecology?

5. What do Hayduke and Smith plan to fill with explosives?

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