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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, April.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is one thing that nobody knows about the woodcock and the dance?
(a) Where it ends.
(b) When it occurs.
(c) Where the female bird is.
(d) How long it lasts.

2. When does the woodcock begins his show every year?
(a) One evening in April.
(b) After the first rain in April.
(c) The full moon in April.
(d) The first warm evening in April.

3. The narrator says that the geese are making this journey since when?
(a) The Ice Age.
(b) The Pleistocene era.
(c) The 1200s.
(d) The 1800s.

4. The book begins in January with what type of weather or environment?
(a) The midwinter blizzards.
(b) The ice storms.
(c) The January snow.
(d) The January thaw.

5. What do people follow, since there is so little going on in nature in January?
(a) Plant growth.
(b) Bird migrations.
(c) Bird nestings.
(d) Animal tracks.

Short Answer Questions

1. When do people begin to settle in the prairie lands?

2. Before human settlers, the prairie lands are in a war against what?

3. The narrator says that the geese are good at what?

4. The narrator says that geese make these migratory journeys where?

5. Who does the narrator say is the most exciting about the flooding of the land where he lives?

(see the answer key)

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