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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 William see on Route 33 in West Virginia that signals a hard life?
(a) Steel skyscrapers.
(b) Tidy, neat stores.
(c) Run down farms.
(d) Modern apartments.

2. What town in Connecticut used to make clipper ships?
(a) Mystic.
(b) Stratford.
(c) Westport.
(d) Waterford.

3. What is Marion an expert on?
(a) Town history
(b) Vegetable gardening.
(c) Landscape painting.
(d) Birds.

4. Who planted a symbolic privet-hedge labyrinth in Harmonie in 1820?
(a) Businessmen.
(b) Methodists.
(c) Rappites.
(d) Soldiers.

5. What time does William meet Tom at the dock in the morning?
(a) Three-thirty.
(b) Four.
(c) Ten.
(d) Six.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does William find in the forest of the Cascades in Oregon that he places in a pail to photograph later?

2. Where does William visit at the end of Section 7?

3. Where does Stacie say she needs a ride?

4. With what did Duncan McDougal threaten the Indian population in order to save the town of Astoria, Oregon?

5. Where did Marion once work?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the day William spends with his friend, Fred Tomlins.

2. Describe William's experience with Alice Venable Middleton on Smith Island.

3. Describe how Captain Clark interacted with the Nez Perce Indians.

4. What causes William to worry that he wants to give up on his trip and head for home when he is in Oregon?

5. How does Alba Bartholomew feel when he is hang gliding?

6. Describe William's experience fishing on the Allison E.

7. How does William describe the location of the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.

8. Does William have second thoughts about picking up the hitchhiker Arthur O. Bakke?

9. What does Alice say changed the social pattern of Smith Island?

10. Describe what William buys at the city market in Annapolis.

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