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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The prickly pear cactus and its blossom exemplifies the
(a) Pain in nature
(b) Unity of opposites
(c) The wild rose
(d) The fierceness of the heat

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

3. Viviano does not understand
(a) Business
(b) American clock time
(c) Dumb Baskos
(d) Cattle ranching

4. Edward Abbey lies like a snake on the edge of a dune to
(a) To feel like a plant, himself
(b) Study the flowers like a snake
(c) To rest from the power of the wind
(d) Feel the wind as a snake would

5. What is the one clue we have that the lawyer who approached Mrs. Husk was representing the government?
(a) His authorization to offer large amounts of money to her
(b) His cufflinks
(c) The emblem on his lighter
(d) His knowledge of her husband's death

6. A civil engineer believes a road will help
(a) To get deeper into the wilderness
(b) To accommodate more tourists
(c) To develop the property for homes
(d) To make it easier to get to Moab

7. Any cow found without a brand
(a) Belongs to the finder
(b) Is taken immediately to the slaughterhouse
(c) Is put in a corral of strays
(d) Is left for the next rancher

8. Viviano is infected by the poison of
(a) Fear
(b) Rattlesnakes
(c) Prejudice
(d) Black Widows

9. The sounds of the mourning doves suggests to Edward
(a) An attempt to communicate with him
(b) Their sadness over the isolation of the desert
(c) An attempt to restore a lost communion
(d) Their oneness with the other desert creatures

10. Abbey describes the voice of the desert
(a) Moaning and crying
(b) Whirling and shrieking
(c) Rising to a demented howl
(d) Screaming through the cracks

11. Viviano's English is about fifty percent
(a) Profanity
(b) Fortune telling
(c) Garbled
(d) Understandable

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

13. Abbey had no fear of drowning in the Havasupai Canyon floor's stream because
(a) It was salty and made him bouyant
(b) He intended to drink it all
(c) It was only a mirage
(d) It was only ankle deep

14. Why was the government interested in the Arches national park area?
(a) Death Valley is a high security area for testing
(b) Its wealth of silver mines
(c) It provides a natural bridge to the east
(d) It is a source of uranium

15. Edward wants to stop attributing human qualities to nature, which is called
(a) Metamophization
(b) Characterization
(c) Anthropomorphism
(d) Personification

Short Answer Questions

1. The gopher snakes watch over Abbey like

2. Just before he heard a jeep approaching, Abbey saw a

3. Edward's new home is a simple

4. Onion Spring, northeast of Moab, is

5. The reason for the growth of Indian population in the southwest is due to

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