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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. Under Abbey's ramada on a sunny day the temperature of 110 degrees is
(a) Comfortable and pleasant
(b) Too hot to breathe
(c) Hotter than inside the trailer
(d) Hot enough for heastroke

2. The clarity of the desert is illustrated in the desert's flora and fauna
(a) The heat and rock
(b) The uncrowded openness
(c) The lack of life
(d) The danger in the plant forms

3. Wood is petrified by
(a) Salt springs erosion
(b) Quicksand
(c) Pressure from cold springs
(d) Hot silica-bearing waters

4. Edward attaches a red bandanna to a ridgepole in honor of
(a) May Day
(b) Spring Solstice
(c) April Fools' Day
(d) Mothers' Day

5. Delicate Arch has been eroded by
(a) Machinery working around the Arch
(b) Rain pounding the Arch
(c) Human feet climbing the Arch
(d) Animals inhabiting the Arch

Short Answer Questions

1. The desert flowers in the month of May have

2. What were Husk and Graham hoping for?

3. Ten miles away past the highway, Abbey can see

4. Who comes out ahead in Abbey's story about Husk and Graham?

5. Abbey suggests that former cowboys, like Indians, may be

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