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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. Why does the state start to get rid of wolves?
(a) To permit hikers to use the mountains.
(b) To optimize hunting.
(c) Because they cause so many problems.
(d) To allow farmers to raise chickens.

2. When does the narrator kill his first partridge?
(a) In his first hunting season.
(b) In his third hunting season.
(c) In his second hunting season.
(d) In his fourth hunting season.

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

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

5. Wildlife managers try to raise game in the wild by what means?
(a) Limiting the length of the hunting season.
(b) Manipulating the environment.
(c) Limiting the amount of wildlife that are killed.
(d) Limiting the types of guns that are used.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What sport does the narrator think is very corrupt?

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

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

5. The narrator discusses the travel of what through time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. The narrator says that he thinks getting rid of the wolves means more deer, but this isn't the case in the long run. Why?

5. According to the narrator, what is the numenon and what is its opposite?

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

7. How does the narrator believe conservation is taught?

8. What two ideas that are part of the split-rail value does the narrator say the pioneer period creates?

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

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

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