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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 first bird that the narrator hears singing?
(a) The yellow warblers.
(b) The sparrows.
(c) The cardinals.
(d) The plovers.

2. How many winters do the longest survivor of the narrator's banded chickadee group live?
(a) Six.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

3. In 1937, the narrator bands how many chickadees?
(a) 21.
(b) 4.
(c) 7.
(d) 14.

4. According to the narrator, where do most people see silphium?
(a) In areas near riverbanks.
(b) In the prairies.
(c) In a botany book.
(d) In areas near graveyards.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How many commandments does the narrator believe the chickadee lives by?

2. According to the narrator, about how many wild plants go into season every week from April to September?

3. What is one of the main birds that makes the marshland its home, as the marshes are moving northward to Canada?

4. By following the deer tracks, the narrator finds out that the deer move about in an area approximately how long to find food from their bed?

5. Pines grow better if they are around certain types of what?

(see the answer key)

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