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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. In the narrator's view, wilderness is the raw material that man uses to create what?
(a) Civilization.
(b) Frontier areas.
(c) National Parks.
(d) Recreational areas.

2. According to the narrator, who or what is responsible for the last of the grizzlies being shot?
(a) Congressmen.
(b) The federal government.
(c) Progress.
(d) The State Department of Fish and Game.

3. The narrator believes that conservation is the state of harmony between the land and what?
(a) Animals.
(b) Man.
(c) Nature.
(d) Plants.

4. According to the narrator, wilderness for recreation is extremely what?
(a) Overused.
(b) Useful.
(c) Needed by people.
(d) Menacing.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, how many different components of the recreational process are there?

2. What is on top of the White Mountain?

3. According to the narrator, the difficult part about finding a way to return to nature is to find a way to do this without destroying what?

4. The narrator believes that the conservation movement is the first step to acknowledging that there is an ecological necessity to establish a code of ethics for the environment and what?

5. To the superficial eye, the Gavilan region is hard, stony and full of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the narrator, why do people not go to Escudillo?

2. What is meant by invasive species?

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

4. What does the narrator state is the main premise for ethics and the environment?

5. Why does the narrator find that the sand farms aren't as poor as people think?

6. What are the conditions that the narrator's father set when he gives the narrator permission to shoot partridges?

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

8. Why should a person never return to nature twice?

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

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

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