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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Moon-Eye rejected humans when he was subjected to
(a) Having to go all day without water
(b) Being ridden too long
(c) A violent beating
(d) Human food

2. The desert flowers in the month of May have
(a) Been overwatered and are drowning
(b) Withered and gone to seed
(c) Finally blossomed
(d) Flourished and are thriving

3. The heat of the desert makes objects appear
(a) As if they are moving
(b) As if they are blurred and on fire
(c) As if they are invisible
(d) As if they are covered in water

4. The beautiful flower Larkspur can be
(a) Poisonous to humans
(b) Made into healing salve
(c) Used for herbal teas
(d) Deadly for cattle

5. The Havsupai are by nature
(a) Judgmental
(b) Malicious and suspicious
(c) Cheerful and easygoing
(d) Lazy and dirty

Short Answer Questions

1. As a true patriot, Abbey encourages Waterman to

2. Abbey decides to climb Tukuhnikivats

3. Abbey uses a piece of hollow cane to create a

4. When Abbey gets a call to help with a search, he assumes

5. The cabin Abbey slept in appears to be

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the difference between Abbey's heat waves and a mirage?

2. What are a few good words that would describe Abbey's impression of the desert at this time of year, and at noon? Is there any other place, time, state of mind or being, to which this same set of words also applies?

3. Why was Abbey not interested in living with the Supai Havasu Indians?

4. Why do you think Abbey wants to own Moon-Eye?

5. Abbey mentions thinking the unthinkable as he drives through the desert past the Arches headquarters. To what is he referring?

6. What does Abbey say, indirectly, about change?

7. The poet to whom Abbey refers in this chapter when he says, "It was all foreseen a half century ago," is Robinson Jeffers, and his poem is entitled "Broken Balance." Why does Abbey not provide the reader with that information, when he has so adamantly laid out his reasoning and feelings for us in the previous paragraphs?

8. Of what is Abbey reminded as he lay naked on top of Tukuhnikivats?

9. If Abbey is somewhat indifferent to the death of a fellow human being, why would that be true?

10. Why does Edward Abbey seemingly push the limits of safety by living in isolation and putting himself in dangerous situations?

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