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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, November.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What animal/bird does the plover follow?
(a) Hawks.
(b) Prairie dogs.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Buffalo.

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

3. Where do the animals go when they are pushed out of their home by the floods?
(a) Nowhere, they drown.
(b) The prairie.
(c) Higher land.
(d) The forest.

4. Who does the narrator say is the most exciting about the flooding of the land where he lives?
(a) Himself.
(b) The carp.
(c) The geese.
(d) The woodcock.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How does the painting, that the narrator describes in August, begin?

3. How do September mornings begin?

4. For how long does the faithful oak tree provide wood for the narrator's family?

5. Where do plovers nest?

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