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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, who are his tenants?
(a) Those who rent his land.
(b) His family who lives there.
(c) Those who visit him.
(d) The animals who live there.

2. 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.

3. What kind of grass do the cattle love to eat?
(a) Bitterbrush.
(b) Wheatgrass.
(c) Sagegrass.
(d) Downy chess.

4. What is silphium?
(a) Grass.
(b) A tree.
(c) A flower.
(d) A weed.

5. A person tells a lot about animals' feeding habits during a season by looking at what?
(a) The animal itself.
(b) The ground.
(c) The tracks.
(d) The plants.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What is a good indicator of whether a farmer protects his corn crop from deer?

3. What is the one thing that the narrator believes really kills a chickadee?

4. When does the narrator leave his house with a notebook and coffee?

5. Why does the chickadee come by when a person is out chopping trees?

(see the answer key)

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