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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17 Terra Incognita: Into the Maze.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Onion Spring, northeast of Moab, is
(a) Full of gold
(b) Poison with arsenic
(c) Slightly salty but good
(d) Clear and drinkable

2. Edward Abbey filled his canteen in the Needles country
(a) Quickly and greedily
(b) One drop per second
(c) From a salty spring
(d) From the rushing Colorado

3. Edward Abbey is employed by the
(a) Moab County Parks Service
(b) Utah State Parks
(c) National Parks Service
(d) US Forest Service

4. A man is shouting from the shore to Abbey and Newcomb about
(a) How boaters are not allowed
(b) Something private to Abbey and Newcomb
(c) Something important to Abbey and Newcomb
(d) Something the reader never learns

5. Floating through the rapids leaves the two boaters
(a) Making plans for the future
(b) Happy and exultant
(c) In shock and awe
(d) Extremely anxious and concerned

Short Answer Questions

1. Abbey's exploration of the Maze with Bob Waterman is

2. Abbey suggests to Waterman that, perhaps, like a German poet, we humans

3. The desert flowers in the month of May have

4. Abbey wishes that the tourists would get out of their vehicles and

5. Besides money, a reason for developing the parks is

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