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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What or who kills the oak tree?
(a) Ice storm.
(b) Burrowing animals.
(c) Forestors.
(d) Lightening.

2. What saves the plovers?
(a) Federal migratory bird laws.
(b) Federal habitat laws.
(c) Local gun laws.
(d) The plovers move to other areas.

3. Who paints the picture or scene that the narrator likes to view?
(a) The visiting painter.
(b) The narrator himself.
(c) The painter who lives on the land.
(d) The river.

4. What is the first bird that the narrator hears singing?
(a) The plovers.
(b) The sparrows.
(c) The yellow warblers.
(d) The cardinals.

5. In Chapter One, where do the tracks end that the narrator is following?
(a) In the field.
(b) At a pile of driftwood.
(c) At the bottom of the tree.
(d) At the edge of the river.

6. Where do the animals go when they are pushed out of their home by the floods?
(a) Nowhere, they drown.
(b) The forest.
(c) Higher land.
(d) The prairie.

7. How long do birch trees usually live?
(a) 25 years.
(b) 1,000 years.
(c) 100 years.
(d) 50 years.

8. How many different kinds of pine tree are there in Wisconsin?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Ten.

9. The narrator says that the geese are good at what?
(a) Eating while flying.
(b) International commerce.
(c) Flying long distances.
(d) Returning to where they are born.

10. How long does it take silphium to mature?
(a) Probably a millenium.
(b) Probably a decade.
(c) Probably a year.
(d) Probably five years.

11. What fish is the narrator fishing for?
(a) Catfish.
(b) Carp.
(c) Trout.
(d) Salmon.

12. When does the woodcock begins his show every year?
(a) After the first rain in April.
(b) One evening in April.
(c) The first warm evening in April.
(d) The full moon in April.

13. How many acres of land does the narrator legally own?
(a) 100.
(b) 12.
(c) 50.
(d) 120.

14. Who or what destroys the painting the narrator describes?
(a) A person.
(b) A storm.
(c) Water.
(d) Wind.

15. How long do pine trees usually live?
(a) 50 years.
(b) 1,000 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 100 years.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does the painting, that the narrator describes in August, begin?

2. The book begins in January with what type of weather or environment?

3. Why does the narrator love the aspen?

4. Why does the chickadee come by when a person is out chopping trees?

5. What do people follow, since there is so little going on in nature in January?

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