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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Joseph Fielding Smith's nickname?

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

3. What does Hayduke attempt to do at a bar?

4. What does Hayduke do as he drives around the desert?

5. What does Doc's bumber sticker state?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe Bonnie Abbzug's character.

2. What do Doc and Abbzug argue about in the bar?

3. What is the purpose of the introduction?

4. Why did the FBI investigate Abbey?

5. Why does Smith not want to set light to the vehicles?

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

7. Why does Doc say he is part of the group?

8. Why does Hayduke give into Doc's idea that they should not use violence?

9. What do the the Governor of Utah and two officers of the Department of Public Safety discuss as they walk back to their vehicles?

10. What does the group destroy on the construction site?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Compare one of the main characters to the person he or she was at the beginning of the book to the person he or she is at the end.

1. What did the character hope to achieve at the beginning of the book?

2. What events changes the character's ideas about life?

3. How has the character changed by the end of the book?

Essay Topic 2

How did Abbey view the 1970s? What impact has his ideas had on environmental groups? Has that impact been mainly positive, or mainly negative?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss elements of the narrative structure: exposition, conflict, complication, climax, resolution and conclusion. Do all the elements make for a logical and linear story? How does the story's structure express the book's themes?

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