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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. "Scrap Lumber" describes the author's daily routine of ___________.
(a) Sleeping late and watching the birds.
(b) Cutting wood and avoiding the biting flies and mosquitoes.
(c) Writing poetry.
(d) Swimming in the pond and sun bathing.

2. Eventually, what does Jack do?
(a) He moves back home.
(b) He returns to school.
(c) He flies away from the author and the cabin and does not return.
(d) He attacks the author.

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

4. While the author is working on building the new outhouse, what must he make a trip into town to get?
(a) Some scrap lumber.
(b) Some wood glue.
(c) A hammer.
(d) Some nails.

5. "The Time of Birdsong" describes the author's all-day observations of __________.
(a) The song and calls of the larks by his window.
(b) The ravens.
(c) The different calls and songs of the birds in the area.
(d) The birds he has captured in a cage.

Short Answer Questions

1. A great glacier expands and retracts across North America for the last few _____________ years.

2. 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?

3. "The Traveling Companion" begins with the author's description of his journey to ___________.

4. The birds start when it is still dark and the singing picks up with the increasing __________.

5. In the section "Time," the author realizes that he has spent over _________ months in the cabin.

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