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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The narrator says that professors serve what?
(a) Science.
(b) The environment.
(c) Their universities.
(d) The wilderness.

2. What governmental district does the bus pass through?
(a) Iowa County Conservation District.
(b) State Conservation District.
(c) Red River Soil Conservation District.
(d) Green River Soil Conservation District.

3. What kind of tree does the State College want the farmers to plant?
(a) Oaks.
(b) Pine.
(c) Cottonwood.
(d) Chinese elm.

4. Why does the dairy industry want to put a dam on the river?
(a) For electricity.
(b) For recreation.
(c) For its use in dairy farming.
(d) For preservation.

5. Who does the narrator meet at the river in Chapter 13?
(a) Paul Bunyan.
(b) Two college boys.
(c) A friend.
(d) A lost dog.

6. The narrator believes that wildlife administrators are too busy figuring out what to shoot at rather than paying attention to what?
(a) The false advertisments.
(b) What is happening to the wildlife.
(c) The type of guns being used.
(d) The cultural values of shooting.

7. According to the narrator, recreation becomes what kind of process?
(a) Self-awareness.
(b) Evolutionary.
(c) Self-destructive.
(d) Mass use.

8. What does the narrator call wildlife tourism?
(a) The what to do department.
(b) The wildlife management department.
(c) The where to go department.
(d) The nature department.

9. When does the State Conservation Department begin to rebuild the river?
(a) 1947.
(b) 1945.
(c) 1943.
(d) 1940.

10. How many values does the narrator say that people have when it comes to nature?
(a) One.
(b) Three.
(c) Many.
(d) Five.

11. According to the narrator, what are people not able to successfully control?
(a) Fires.
(b) The growth of invasive species.
(c) Diseases.
(d) The health of the land.

12. When the narrator goes with his brother to the Colorado Delta, they camp on an estuary near the place where what bird roosts?
(a) Ducks.
(b) Geese.
(c) Grouse.
(d) Gambel quail.

13. According to the narrator, wilderness for recreation is extremely what?
(a) Needed by people.
(b) Overused.
(c) Useful.
(d) Menacing.

14. What flower does the narrator describe as blooming in the sand?
(a) The draba.
(b) The hydrangea.
(c) All of the above.
(d) The dustwort.

15. One type of outdoor recreation enthusiast is the kind that wanders in the woods searching for what?
(a) Rare plants and birds.
(b) Mushrooms.
(c) The "perfect place".
(d) The wilderness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is on top of the White Mountain?

2. In the narrator's view, wilderness is the raw material that man uses to create what?

3. What animals are National Parks not able to protect?

4. What makes cheat grass inedible for the livestock?

5. Recreation is an economic resource of the government, but the narrator believes that it also has what kind of component to it?

(see the answer keys)

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