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

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does the narrator hear when the sun comes up?

3. According to the narrator, where do most people see silphium?

4. How many different kinds of pine tree are there in Wisconsin?

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

(see the answer key)

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