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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What bird is only found only in the sand counties?
(a) The golden duck.
(b) The jackpine.
(c) The clay colored sparrow.
(d) The woodpecker.

2. According to the narrator, too much safety in our lives means what in the long run?
(a) Loss of excitement.
(b) Danger.
(c) Less prosperity.
(d) More predictability.

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

4. What governmental district does the bus pass through?
(a) Iowa County Conservation District.
(b) Red River Soil Conservation District.
(c) State Conservation District.
(d) Green River Soil Conservation District.

5. What animals do the grizzly bear eat in the spring?
(a) Deer.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Lions.
(d) Livestock.

Short Answer Questions

1. Recreation is an economic resource of the government, but the narrator believes that it also has what kind of component to it?

2. The top of the White Mountain is originally only accessible to whom?

3. Who does the narrator meet at the river in Chapter 13?

4. The narrator feels that as everyone strives for safety, prosperity and comfort, life becomes what?

5. What does the narrator call wildlife tourism?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why are public policies involved with outdoor recreation controversial?

2. Why does the State Conservation Department buy back land along the Flambeau River?

3. According to the narrator, what do people need to do who are a part of recreational development?

4. How does peoples' ability to enjoy nature begin?

5. The narrator states that State College is more concerned with beauty and ease than with what?

6. Why does the State College want farmers to plant Chinese elms rather than cottonwoods?

7. Why does the narrator say that nobody knows all the terrain on top of the White Mountain?

8. What are the three different values listed by the narrator that people have when it comes to nature?

9. The narrator compares puccoons to what other plant and why?

10. According to the narrator, what are two problems that humans face with regards to the wilderness?

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