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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 are the approximate ages of the four men who are discussing the canoe trip?
(a) Varies from twenty to thirty-five.
(b) Mid-forties.
(c) Mid-thirties.
(d) Late twenties.

2. What does the Griner brother ask Lewis after being asked to drive the cars to Aintry?
(a) Why their cars need to be driven to Aintry.
(b) Who sent them to see him.
(c) Why they are bothering him.
(d) What's the most he is willing to pay each of them.

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

4. 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.

5. For what disaster have Lewis and his wife prepared?
(a) A hurricane.
(b) An atom bomb falling on the USA.
(c) A run on the banks; he has gold hidden on his property.
(d) A tornado.

Short Answer Questions

1. in the Before section, why doesn't Ed worry about being late for work?

2. What people surround Ed as he walks back to work from having lunch with the other men?

3. How much does Lewis offer each Griner brother to drive their cars to Aintry?

4. What one good thing had Holley done that remains at the graphics business?

5. What do the men find in the river on the first day of the canoe trip?

Short Essay Questions

1. What's the significance of the owl hunting from Ed's tent the first night?

2. After the canoe trip, why is Ed not sorry when Bobby disappears from his life, even though, before the trip, he enjoyed knowing him?

3. Why does Ed tell Drew's wife of her loss before getting a good rest at home?

4. Learning that Ed killed their attacker, why is Bobby surprised that Ed did what he'd set out to do?

5. Why does the Aintry sheriff's deputy react so negatively to the men's story?

6. In the After section, why does Ed go to Bobby's room at Biddiford's?

7. On the cliff, waiting for their attacker to arrive, why is Ed good at guessing what the attacker will do when he arrives?

8. How does the group feel after getting through their first whitewater safely?

9. After the rape and the disposal of the body, how does Ed feel when he hears the worst whitewater of the trip ahead of them?

10. Why does the sheriff keep asking questions after saying he accepts Ed's story of the accident?

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