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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. Where do the narrator and his friends wait out the storm?
(a) In the forest.
(b) Inside.
(c) Outside under the house.
(d) In the garage.

2. Most hunters don't know that the partridge likes to hang around what bush?
(a) Cranberry bush.
(b) Blueberry bush.
(c) Blackberry bush.
(d) Raspberry bush.

3. When do people begin to settle in the prairie lands?
(a) 1860s.
(b) 1840s.
(c) 1810s.
(d) 1850s.

4. Why does the narrator love the aspen?
(a) It grows tall.
(b) It provides food for his grouse.
(c) It has lovely colors.
(d) It has beautiful leaves.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do the animals go when they are pushed out of their home by the floods?

2. What is the general topic of A Sand County?

3. What is the first wildlife the narrator mentions lives in his woods?

4. What fish is the narrator fishing for?

5. What saves the plovers?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the most basic principle of ecology according to the narrator?

2. What can people learn from animal tracks?

3. Why is the flora in the area shrinking?

4. The narrator says that the migratory habits of the upland plover proves that nature knows what?

5. Why does the narrator consider the oak tree special?

6. When the narrator sees two woodcocks sky dance, what does he not know about them?

7. What two natural enemies do the plover and man have in common?

8. Where do tamaracks grow?

9. Why do pines have the reputation of being green year round?

10. What does the narrator consider the "big deal" when he catches three trout?

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