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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 does Seldom Seen pray for God to start?
(a) An earthquake.
(b) A thunderstorm.
(c) A rainstorm.
(d) A hurricane.

2. What does George Hayduke think is destroying the landscape?
(a) War.
(b) Cars.
(c) Housing developments.
(d) Industry.

3. How does Doc warn the group a Jeep is driving up the path?
(a) He fires a gun.
(b) He whistles.
(c) He howls.
(d) He hoots his horn.

4. What character in the novel does Abbey base on the leader of a real environmental group?
(a) Brinkley.
(b) Dr. Boss.
(c) Hayduke.
(d) Abbey.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What shoots off when the organizers cut the ribbon?

2. Where was Edward Abbey raised?

3. Where does Hayduke want the explosives to go off?

4. Where does Doc Sarvis burn down billboards?

5. Where do Abbzug and Doc stop before Doc has to return to the hospital?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were Abbey's links to environmental groups?

2. Who is Joseph Fielding Smith?

3. Why does Abbzug question Doc's activities?

4. How is the bridge destroyed?

5. Why did the FBI investigate Abbey?

6. How do Hayduke and Smith want to destroy the dam?

7. What do the men discuss when the women go to bed?

8. What are Abbzug's views on Hayduke and Smith?

9. What does Hayduke watch as he eats breakfast?

10. How does Abbey express his likes and dislikes in the prologue?

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