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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What flower does the narrator describe as blooming in the sand?
(a) The hydrangea.
(b) The draba.
(c) The dustwort.
(d) All of the above.

2. Recreation is an economic resource of the government, but the narrator believes that it also has what kind of component to it?
(a) Esthetic.
(b) Ethical.
(c) Evolutionary.
(d) Ecological.

3. To the superficial eye, the Gavilan region is hard, stony and full of what?
(a) Rocks.
(b) Trees.
(c) Sand.
(d) Cliffs and slopes.

4. How many values does the narrator say that people have when it comes to nature?
(a) One.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Many.

5. In Chapter 14, what are the grandfather and grandson cutting down?
(a) Cottonwood tree.
(b) Pine tree.
(c) Oak tree.
(d) Chinese elm tree.

6. What is on top of the White Mountain?
(a) A boneyard.
(b) A meadow.
(c) A desert.
(d) Rocks.

7. According to the narrator, recreation becomes what kind of process?
(a) Self-awareness.
(b) Self-destructive.
(c) Evolutionary.
(d) Mass use.

8. The narrator states that the level of violence on the land is directly related to what?
(a) Population density.
(b) The health of the land.
(c) The native plants.
(d) The native animals.

9. According to the narrator, what are people not able to successfully control?
(a) The growth of invasive species.
(b) Diseases.
(c) Fires.
(d) The health of the land.

10. When does the narrator buy a farm?
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1930s.
(c) 1910s.
(d) 1920s.

11. What does the narrator call wildlife tourism?
(a) The nature department.
(b) The what to do department.
(c) The where to go department.
(d) The wildlife management department.

12. What river does the narrator talk about in Chapter 13?
(a) The Wisconsin River.
(b) The Porterville.
(c) The Sasquehena.
(d) The Flambeau.

13. According to the narrator in Chapter 14, what is the purpose of the farms they are passing by?
(a) To grow food.
(b) To preserve the land.
(c) To preserve a way of life.
(d) To make money.

14. What does the bus pass through, after it passes State College?
(a) Marsh area.
(b) Forest.
(c) More farmland.
(d) Chicago.

15. What is one of the main birds that makes the marshland its home, as the marshes are moving northward to Canada?
(a) The grebe.
(b) The sandwort.
(c) The grouse.
(d) The spotted warbler.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 13, the narrator discusses the extinction of what?

2. When the bus passes through a cemetery, what plant does the narrator see?

3. The narrator believes that wildlife administrators are too busy figuring out what to shoot at rather than paying attention to what?

4. What steers the course of history, according to scientists?

5. According to the narrator, who or what is responsible for the last of the grizzlies being shot?

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