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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Edward Abbey's solution to preventing rattlesnakes is
(a) To capture and domesticate a gopher snake
(b) To shoot them with his British Webley .45
(c) To feed them the mice in his trailer
(d) To scare them away with his walking stick

3. The small cloud on Abbey's horizon is
(a) Unemployment
(b) Homebrew
(c) Progress
(d) Prostitutes

4. Abbey feels if you have reached the point of needing moisture from the barrel cactus
(a) You are ready for life as a pioneer
(b) You are doomed
(c) You are a true cowboy
(d) You have reached the pinnacle of survival

5. The only stream that flows perennially through the park is
(a) Too salty to be potable
(b) A babbling creek behind his trailer
(c) A rushing stream of snow melt
(d) Pepper Creek

6. Why did Roy Scobie need to round up his cattle?
(a) To get them to a cooler, higher altitude
(b) To prepare them for slaughter
(c) To get a grazing permit
(d) They have depeleted their pasture of food

7. The Moab Valley in the distance lies between
(a) Mesas and low hills
(b) Thousand-foot walls of rock
(c) Glacial mountains
(d) Plateaus and bluffs

8. The gopher snakes watch over Abbey like
(a) Totemic deities
(b) Enemies waiting to strike
(c) Voyeurs, watching his activities
(d) Predators watching their prey

9. Salty water cannot sustain human life because
(a) It causes the body to become even more dehydrated
(b) It causes severe head pain
(c) It shrinks the arteries
(d) It mixes with blood and makes it too salty

10. Edward Abbey's garden is
(a) A stand of locoweed
(b) A vegetable garden behind the trailer
(c) A flower garden in front of the porch
(d) All that lies around him

11. We learn that Abbey has a real dislike for
(a) Wind
(b) Snakes
(c) Red ants
(d) Rabbits

12. Edward's part thought in this chapter is that
(a) Women have souls
(b) Only dogs have emotions
(c) Animals have no emotions
(d) All living things on earth are kindred

13. Some ancient pictographs in the rocks depict
(a) Flying dinosaurs
(b) Semi-human and super-human people
(c) Space aliens that look like humans
(d) Violent acts of nature

14. On his stomach, Abbey witnesses
(a) The burrowing of two snakes
(b) The mating dance of two bull snakes
(c) The retreat of the snakes from his cabin
(d) A fight between two rattlesnakes

15. Abbey sees as a nuisance the presence in the desert of
(a) Snakes, lizards and gophers
(b) Foxes, wolves and bobcats
(c) Rodents such as rats, mice and squirrels
(d) Scorpions, tarantulas, centipedes and black widows

Short Answer Questions

1. Hundreds of years ago, Anasazi hunters left behind

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

3. The clarity of the desert is illustrated in the desert's flora and fauna

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

5. Much of the fauna growing near Abbey's trailer is

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