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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14 The Dead Man at Grandview Point.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When a person is in the desert long enough he learns to
(a) Know by the insect patterns where water is
(b) Follow animals to water
(c) Smell water
(d) Hear running water miles away

2. Abbey calls the rampant development of national parks
(a) Reclamation
(b) Industrial Tourism
(c) Nationalism
(d) Restitution

3. Thunderstorms come to the high desert in
(a) September 15
(b) The middle of spring
(c) The first of October
(d) July and August

4. Abbey says, after a million years of neglect,
(a) Progress has come to the Arches
(b) People have taken all the animals from the wilderness
(c) The Park has worn down to nothing
(d) The sandstone arches have dissolved

5. Vernon Pick managed to sufficiently purify his water by
(a) Running water through sand before drinking
(b) Filtering the water through gravel
(c) Turning his canteen into a charcoal filter
(d) Pouring water through thick brush before drinking

Short Answer Questions

1. When Abbey gets a call to help with a search, he assumes

2. Abbey is polemic about

3. The government survey crew came with plans to

4. Edward Abbey's description of a thunderstorm in the desert is

5. Since the visit from the government workers, The Arches Park has

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