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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, April.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the main argument of this book?
(a) Rebuilding.
(b) Social conscience.
(c) Land ethic.
(d) Reparation.

2. The narrator talks about the geese's inevitable flight to where?
(a) The marshes of Sand County.
(b) The south.
(c) Their original breeding ground.
(d) The north.

3. When does the woodcock begins his show every year?
(a) After the first rain in April.
(b) The full moon in April.
(c) The first warm evening in April.
(d) One evening in April.

4. What tree does the narrator write about in April?
(a) Bur fir.
(b) Bur oak.
(c) Willow.
(d) Sycamore.

5. All the trees in the area date to what time?
(a) 1810s and 1820s.
(b) 1830s and 1840s.
(c) 1870s and 1880s.
(d) 1850s and 1860s.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator says that the geese are making this journey since when?

2. How do animals generally move during this time in January?

3. How long does the narrator wait to cut the oak tree down?

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

5. Why doesn't the woodcock dance in the brush or grass?

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