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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Urgency of Spring, June 12 Early Harvests, Jack, Bedrock, Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Beginnings" deals with the author's goals for the _________ he will spend in the cabin.
(a) Six months.
(b) Two years.
(c) Year.
(d) Five years.

2. The families have lived in the area since _________, and the author is a friend of the descendants of those first settlers.
(a) 1796.
(b) 1769.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1697.

3. In "Beginnings," the author tells us that he has what kind of contact with the outside world?
(a) A cell phone.
(b) A telephone in his bedroom.
(c) A walkie-talkie.
(d) A telephone in the neighbor's outhouse.

4. What comes out in the early evening, closely followed by several types of songbirds?
(a) Swarms of flies.
(b) Deer.
(c) Bats.
(d) Swarms of mosquitoes.

5. In "Bedrock," the author gives a ___________ history of the region.
(a) Geologic.
(b) Geothermal.
(c) Geometric.
(d) Geographic.

Short Answer Questions

1. While the author is working on building the new outhouse, what must he make a trip into town to get?

2. What does the author awaken to on his first morning?

3. What does "Adams Hill" describe?

4. In town the author meets _________________, who gives him some wood and fixes his chainsaw.

5. The author has observed that the small cemeteries are full of the families who first came to the area and that the majority of gravestones belong to whom?

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