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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10 The Heat of Noon: Rock and Tree and Cloud.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Abbey feel is lost with the looting of the forests' natural treasures?
(a) Human delight
(b) Protection from erosion
(c) A sense of prosperity
(d) Homes for wildlife

2. In the middle of the day on the desert, most of the birds
(a) Are busy looking for water
(b) Are muted and inactive
(c) Huddling in groups for shade
(d) Are taking advantage of slow moving insects

3. The meaning of Abbey's words, "claritas, integritas, veritas" can be found in this quote:
(a) Paradox and bedrock.
(b) To meet God or Medusa face to face, even if it means risking everything human in myself
(c) I am here...to confront, immediately and directly if it's possible, the bare bones of existence
(d) ...the desert reveals itself nakedly and cruelly, with no meaning but its own existnece

4. What kind of tool can detect the presence of uranium?
(a) A Vanadium sensor
(b) A radiation detector
(c) A mining meter
(d) A Geiger counter

5. What is Abbey saying about the area in the Graham and Husk story?
(a) That greed will kill people
(b) That a child was killed unnecesssarily
(c) That not all men are equal
(d) That nature is far more powerful than man

Short Answer Questions

1. What were Husk and Graham hoping for?

2. We learn that Abbey was raised

3. A badge gives Edward Abbey the authority to

4. Edward Abbey lies like a snake on the edge of a dune to

5. West of the Mississippi, Abbey says the cult of "cowboyism" is growing as fast as

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