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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. What is the one thing that the narrator believes really kills a chickadee?
(a) Owls.
(b) Lack of food.
(c) Disease.
(d) Weather.

2. According to the narrator, today the honey-colored hills of the northwest mountains are covered with what?
(a) Bunchgrass.
(b) Cheat grass.
(c) Old alfalfa fields.
(d) Degrading hay.

3. How many acres of land does the narrator legally own?
(a) 120.
(b) 100.
(c) 12.
(d) 50.

4. Pines grow better if they are around certain types of what?
(a) Animals.
(b) Plants.
(c) Bees.
(d) Birds.

5. Why does the narrator say he has to get off his neighbor's property?
(a) So his neighbor can get to work.
(b) To avoid being caught for trespassing.
(c) To get back to his house.
(d) To avoid having to explain what he is doing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What makes cheat grass inedible for the livestock?

2. According to the narrator in Chapter 17, what is accepted as a necessary evil in the northwestern foothills?

3. Where does the narrator go to see silphium?

4. Where is the best place to place a trap for a chickadee?

5. In 1937, the narrator bands how many chickadees?

(see the answer key)

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