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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. How many hours a day did John and his siblings work on the land for their father?
(a) 10.
(b) 12.
(c) 8.
(d) 17.

2. In what season did John have unsteady work in the Yosemite Valley?
(a) Spring.
(b) Summer.
(c) Fall.
(d) Winter.

3. What work did John take in Chapter 6?
(a) Farmhand.
(b) Shepherd.
(c) Hunter.
(d) Cattle wrangler.

4. How high did snow pile up on the Yosemite?
(a) Around seven feet.
(b) It was impossible to measure due to drifting.
(c) Ten or fifteen feet.
(d) More than twenty feet.

5. What was the year at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) 1867.
(b) 1866.
(c) 1869.
(d) 1868.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what canyon was the dome John went to the top of after his first encounter with the bear?

2. What did John want to investigate in the early summer of 1869?

3. What did John climb in Chapter 10?

4. Who once owned John's family home?

5. Where did John go after the Sierra Nevada?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did John feel about shepherding? How did he deal with his feelings?

2. What did Daniel decide to do in 1857? Why did he do this?

3. How did John get across an area he could not pass in Chapter 5?

4. Where did John want to go in Chapter 5? What concerns did he have about it?

5. What did John and his siblings do on the family's land? Why?

6. What were John's geographical movements at the beginning of Chapter 6? What work did he do at this time?

7. After his second encounter with a bear, explain how John's attitude and behavior toward bears changed.

8. What are "scoochers?" Give one example.

9. Explain John's bout with a fever in Chapter 5.

10. What did the residents of Yosemite Valley think of John?

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