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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, Conservation Esthetic.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of tracks are seen in the painting?
(a) Tire tracks.
(b) There are no tracks in the painting.
(c) Animal tracks.
(d) People tracks.

2. In Chapter 13, the narrator discusses the extinction of what?
(a) The draba.
(b) The crane.
(c) The golden swallow.
(d) The passenger pigeon.

3. What kind of tree does the State College want the farmers to plant?
(a) Cottonwood.
(b) Chinese elm.
(c) Oaks.
(d) Pine.

4. How many commandments does the narrator believe the chickadee lives by?
(a) 2.
(b) 5.
(c) 3.
(d) 10.

5. How does the painting, that the narrator describes in August, begin?
(a) With a silt ribbon.
(b) With an outline.
(c) With the sky.
(d) With a green line.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How long does it take silphium to mature?

3. To the superficial eye, the Gavilan region is hard, stony and full of what?

4. Why does the narrator love the tamarack?

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 14, what is the purpose of the farms they are passing by?

(see the answer key)

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