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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, Conservation Esthetic.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When do the plover go back to Argentina?
(a) At the beginning of winter.
(b) At the end of summer.
(c) When their chicks are grown.
(d) When the air turns too cool for them.

2. What is the first wildlife the narrator mentions lives in his woods?
(a) The chickadees.
(b) The bears.
(c) The coons.
(d) The wood ducks.

3. What animal/bird does the plover follow?
(a) Prairie dogs.
(b) Hawks.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Buffalo.

4. What forms a lake in Wisconsin that is half as long as the state itself?
(a) A glacier.
(b) A mammoth rock slide.
(c) Man.
(d) A volcano.

5. Who does the narrator say is the first animal to awaken in January?
(a) Mouse.
(b) Skunk.
(c) Bear.
(d) Hawk.

Short Answer Questions

1. Most hunters don't know that the partridge likes to hang around what bush?

2. What river does the narrator talk about in Chapter 13?

3. What does the bus pass through, after it passes State College?

4. The narrator likens the hunter in the Sierra Madres to what?

5. When do people begin to settle in the prairie lands?

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