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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, July.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Plovers are smart enough to avoid what?
(a) Hay mowers.
(b) Drainage ditches.
(c) Hawks.
(d) Owls.

2. The narrator says that geese make these migratory journeys where?
(a) Throughout the world.
(b) Only in the United States.
(c) Only in the western hemisphere.
(d) Only in the eastern hemisphere.

3. When do people begin to settle in the prairie lands?
(a) 1810s.
(b) 1840s.
(c) 1850s.
(d) 1860s.

4. What or who kills the oak tree?
(a) Ice storm.
(b) Burrowing animals.
(c) Lightening.
(d) Forestors.

5. When does the narrator leave his house with a notebook and coffee?
(a) 5:00 a.m.
(b) 6:30 a.m.
(c) 3:30 a.m.
(d) 7:00 a.m.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of tracks does the narrator follow in Chapter One?

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

3. The book begins in January with what type of weather or environment?

4. What is the general topic of A Sand County?

5. What is one thing that nobody knows about the woodcock and the dance?

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