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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. According to the narrator, how many different components of the recreational process are there?
(a) Three.
(b) Six.
(c) Five.
(d) Two.

3. Who does the the state send to kill the bear?
(a) A state trooper.
(b) None of these.
(c) A bounty hunter.
(d) A government trapper.

4. What sport does the narrator think is very corrupt?
(a) Fishing.
(b) Duck hunting.
(c) Deer hunting.
(d) Fox hunting.

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

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

7. According to the narrator in Chapter 17, what is accepted as a necessary evil in the northwestern foothills?
(a) Roaming cattle.
(b) Sagebrush.
(c) Cheat grass.
(d) Mosquitoes.

8. When the narrator sees the air hole, what does he decide to do?
(a) Make it bigger.
(b) Leave.
(c) Try to fish.
(d) Wait.

9. The narrator discusses the travel of what through time?
(a) A tree.
(b) An annimal.
(c) A bird.
(d) An atom.

10. The narrator feels that as everyone strives for safety, prosperity and comfort, life becomes what?
(a) Predictable.
(b) Dull.
(c) Easier.
(d) Exciting.

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

12. In Chapter 13, the narrator discusses the extinction of what?
(a) The passenger pigeon.
(b) The draba.
(c) The crane.
(d) The golden swallow.

13. When does the State Conservation Department begin to rebuild the river?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1943.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1940.

14. When the bus passes through a cemetery, what plant does the narrator see?
(a) Silphium.
(b) Pasque-flowers.
(c) Puccoons.
(d) Draba.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is another area of Wisconsin that the narrator has a deep love for?

2. What governmental district does the bus pass through?

3. Who does the narrator think is the only one who listens to the wolf's howl objectively?

4. Why does the dairy industry want to put a dam on the river?

5. Why does the state start to get rid of wolves?

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