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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Ed enjoy Drew's music so much at the first encampment of the canoe trip?
(a) Drew knows what kind of music each man likes and plays it.
(b) It's soft mood music.
(c) It's folk music played in the right setting.
(d) It reminds him of home and of his wife.

2. What camping equipment do Ed and Dean play with in the living room the morning Ed leaves on the canoe trip?
(a) A knife.
(b) His bow and arrows.
(c) The rope coiled on top of everythng.
(d) The sofa pillows; they have a pillow fight.

3. How does Ed attract Bobby's attention from the top of the cliff as Bobby paddles the canoe down the river?
(a) He yells loudly.
(b) He waves and jumps up and down.
(c) He reflects a mirror off the aluminum canoe's side.
(d) He throws the rifle into the water ahead of the canoe.

4. How much hunting experience does Ed have?
(a) He's hunted most of his life.
(b) A couple of years hunting with buddies without success.
(c) No experience hunting deer, but he has hunted other animals.
(d) None, he has never hunted before.

5. How does Lewis react to having killed a man?
(a) It doesn't seem to bother him.
(b) He shuts himself away from the others.
(c) He examines the man and kicks his dead body.
(d) He loses his breakfast.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is the first man that the four men encounter in Oree described?

2. in the Before section, Ed Gentry is depressed after lunch because...

3. What does Ed do differently at work than before he took the canoe trip?

4. After burying the body of the man Lewis shot, why does Bobby go in a canoe with Lewis and Drew go in a canoe with Ed?

5. In the September 16 section, what does Ed ask of his wife when he calls her?

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