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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 17, Oregon and Utah and Chapter 18, Manitoba.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator in Chapter 17, what is accepted as a necessary evil in the northwestern foothills?
(a) Sagebrush.
(b) Roaming cattle.
(c) Cheat grass.
(d) Mosquitoes.

2. What is one of the main birds that makes the marshland its home, as the marshes are moving northward to Canada?
(a) The spotted warbler.
(b) The sandwort.
(c) The grebe.
(d) The grouse.

3. Why does the chickadee come by when a person is out chopping trees?
(a) It likes people.
(b) To investigate the noise.
(c) To get food.
(d) It senses danger.

4. What does the narrator hear when the sun comes up?
(a) The neighbor's tractor.
(b) Animals moving.
(c) Dogs barking.
(d) A tree falling.

5. According to the narrator, about how many wild plants go into season every week from April to September?
(a) 20.
(b) 15.
(c) 5.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. A person tells a lot about animals' feeding habits during a season by looking at what?

2. According to the narrator, today the honey-colored hills of the northwest mountains are covered with what?

3. What is the first bird that the narrator hears singing?

4. What plant is the biggest problem in the northwestern foothills?

5. Why don't people ignore all these wild plants?

(see the answer key)

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