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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. What shoots off when the organizers cut the ribbon?
(a) Rifles.
(b) Explosives.
(c) Fireworks.
(d) Machine guns.

2. What does the group pour into fuel tanks?
(a) Porridge and soil.
(b) Pancake mix and tomato juice.
(c) Water and gunpowder.
(d) Karo syrup and sand.

3. What reason does Abbey give for writing novels on ecology?
(a) To criticize people.
(b) To recruit people.
(c) To enlighten people.
(d) To scare people.

4. What does Doc want to use instead of violence?
(a) People power.
(b) Mayhem.
(c) Advertising.
(d) Threats.

5. How does Hayduke respond to Smith throwing a shoe at him?
(a) He grabs the steering wheel.
(b) He screams.
(c) He hits Smith.
(d) He grabs his gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What character in the novel does Abbey base on the leader of a real environmental group?

2. Where do Hayduke and Smith drive to to sleep?

3. What do Sarvis and Abbzug stop to listen to?

4. What has the Sierra Club dubbed Abbey?

5. What does the group hide across the canyons of southeast Utah and southern Arizona?

Short Essay Questions

1. How is the bridge destroyed?

2. What does Smith tell the group about Bishop Love?

3. Why does Hayduke give into Doc's idea that they should not use violence?

4. Why is the Colorado River no longer the raging force it once was?

5. How does this chapter show the differences between Smith and Hayduke?

6. How do Doc and Abbzug get away with buying firearms?

7. How did Hayduke get his revenge on a police officer?

8. How does Chapter 9 express Hayduke's darker side?

9. What do Doc and Abbzug argue about in the bar?

10. What are Abbzug's views on Hayduke and Smith?

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