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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How do animals generally move during this time in January?
(a) Swiftly.
(b) Very rapidly.
(c) Very slowly.
(d) Ambling along.

2. What is the best way to hunt partridge?
(a) Walk through the mountains.
(b) Make a plan of what to do.
(c) Walk between berry bushes.
(d) Walk along the path at the marsh.

3. The narrator says that different hunts have different what?
(a) Time limits.
(b) Patterns.
(c) Flavors.
(d) Smells.

4. Pines do best when they are away from their parents, because they get their own what?
(a) Pollinators.
(b) Sunlight.
(c) Rain.
(d) Food.

5. What animal do the cured oak leaves feed?
(a) Chickadees.
(b) Grouse.
(c) Wood ducks.
(d) Coons.

6. Pines grow better if they are around certain types of what?
(a) Bees.
(b) Birds.
(c) Plants.
(d) Animals.

7. Why does the narrator love the tamarack?
(a) It gives shade.
(b) It has beautiful leaves.
(c) It is nearly extinct in his area.
(d) It provides food for his grouse.

8. What kind of seedlings does the narrator describe?
(a) Evergreen.
(b) Corn.
(c) Fir.
(d) Oak.

9. Why does the narrator say he has to get off his neighbor's property?
(a) To get back to his house.
(b) To avoid having to explain what he is doing.
(c) To avoid being caught for trespassing.
(d) So his neighbor can get to work.

10. A person tells a lot about animals' feeding habits during a season by looking at what?
(a) The tracks.
(b) The plants.
(c) The ground.
(d) The animal itself.

11. Where do plovers nest?
(a) Barns.
(b) Trees.
(c) Under the ground.
(d) Hayfields.

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

13. For how long does the faithful oak tree provide wood for the narrator's family?
(a) 40 years.
(b) 80 years.
(c) 60 years.
(d) 20 years.

14. Where do the narrator and his friends wait out the storm?
(a) Outside under the house.
(b) In the forest.
(c) In the garage.
(d) Inside.

15. How many winters do the longest survivor of the narrator's banded chickadee group live?
(a) Six.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the first bird that the narrator hears singing?

2. People tend to ignore song birds that do what?

3. Why don't people ignore all these wild plants?

4. Where do the animals go when they are pushed out of their home by the floods?

5. What flower does the narrator write about in April?

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