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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5 Polemic: Industrial Tourism and the National Parks.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Edward is able to hear, but not see
(a) Distant hawks
(b) Canyon wrens and mourning doves
(c) Mice and rats
(d) Highway traffic

2. Visiting Moab on Wednesdays, Edward Abbey deduces that the men in the beer joints have been
(a) Working as park rangers all day
(b) Are poor miners
(c) In town for most of the day
(d) Active and working alone all day

3. Abbey is polemic about
(a) Not distroying our national parks
(b) Improving the space station
(c) Killing off the wolves
(d) Birds of prey being destroyed

4. Abbey describes the scene he observes as
(a) A tapestry of rocks and dirt
(b) One of God's miracles
(c) A monstrous and inhuman spectacle
(d) A barren wasteland

5. A medicinal property of the buckbrush is that of
(a) Quinine
(b) Disinfectant
(c) Saponaria
(d) Mint

Short Answer Questions

1. Delicate Arch has been eroded by

2. Abbey describes the voice of the desert

3. Edward Abbey's garden is

4. The prickly pear cactus and its blossom exemplifies the

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

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