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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens three or four times a day as Bryson and Katz hike the trail?
(a) Saws can be heard in the distance
(b) Unplanned rest stops
(c) Animals in the woods are heard but not seen
(d) They meet some of the small cohort hiking in the same direction at the same pace

2. What do Bryson and Katz begin hiking?
(a) The Rockies
(b) The Blue Ridge Mountains
(c) The Smokies
(d) The White Mountains

3. Who is one of the most famous thru hikers of the Appalachian Trail?
(a) Chicken John
(b) Crazy Bob
(c) John Connelly
(d) Emma Grandma Gatewood

4. Where do botanists consider the finest mix of mesophytic forest?
(a) The Blue Ridge Mountains
(b) The Rockies
(c) The White Mountains
(d) The Smokies

5. What is Bryson's longstanding impression of the woods?
(a) Woods are spooky
(b) Woods are a great place to relax
(c) Woods are nature's library
(d) Woods are nature's ordered masterpiece

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Bryson's goal before he meets up with Katz again?

2. Where were twenty miles of trail lopped off in 1958?

3. What stands at Fontana Lake's western end?

4. What is it about the airline person that prompts Bryson to question the man's intelligence?

5. How do people get to the top of Mt. Washington if they do not hike?

(see the answer key)

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