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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 is killing all the hemlock trees along the Appalachian Trail?
(a) Acid rain
(b) Spiders
(c) A fungus
(d) An aphid introduced from Asia

2. Where does Katz join Bryson?
(a) Pike's Peak
(b) Killingsly
(c) Hanover
(d) Mount Washington

3. For what is Bryson yearning?
(a) Seeing a black bear
(b) Hiking with Katz
(c) Real hiking
(d) A cheeseburger

4. Who set up the American Literary, Scientific, and Military Academy in 1785?
(a) Jeremy Washington
(b) Gene Greylock
(c) Michael McKinley
(d) Alden Partridge

5. What is the percentage of through hikers who make it to the Hundred Mile Wilderness?
(a) 10
(b) 75
(c) 2
(d) 35

Short Answer Questions

1. What is unusual about the town of Centralia?

2. What is it like hiking in the Hundred Miles Wilderness?

3. What has devastated a mountain of foliage in Palmerton?

4. What is the total walking distance of the typical American in one week?

5. What does Bryson discover when he walks to Kmart in Waynesboro?

Short Essay Questions

1. What has Mount Greylock, the highest peak in Massachusetts, inspired?

2. Describe how Bryson returns to the hotel room in Waynesboro after he walks to Kmart.

3. Describe Kitattiny Mountain and how it was formed.

4. Summarize the plans Bryson and Katz make now that they have completed the first stage of their hiking journey.

5. Describe the summit of Mount Washington in New Hampshire.

6. Explain why Katz starts drinking again.

7. Summarize the behavior of the hikers that Bryson and Katz meet in Gravel Springs Hut.

8. What is the decision that Bryson and Katz make after Katz gets lost in the woods.

9. Summarize the statistics Laurie Potteiger, the Information Specialist at Harper's Ferry, gives to Bryson about the number of thru hikers who hiked the Appalachian Trail the year before.

10. Summarize the weather conditions in which most people fall victim to hypothermia.

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