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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, July.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Before human settlers, the prairie lands are in a war against what?
(a) Animals.
(b) Weather.
(c) Winds.
(d) Fires.

2. What is silphium?
(a) A tree.
(b) Grass.
(c) A flower.
(d) A weed.

3. When do the plover go back to Argentina?
(a) When the air turns too cool for them.
(b) When their chicks are grown.
(c) At the end of summer.
(d) At the beginning of winter.

4. Why do humans begin to destroy the plover?
(a) They like to eat them.
(b) They are a nuisance.
(c) They get in the way.
(d) They are destroying crops.

5. Where does the woodcock land after the dance?
(a) The top of a tree.
(b) The place where they hope to nest.
(c) The grass.
(d) The same spot that he start in.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, where do most people see silphium?

2. Where does the narrator go to see silphium?

3. The narrator talks about the geese's inevitable flight to where?

4. What fish is the narrator fishing for?

5. The book begins in January with what type of weather or environment?

(see the answer key)

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