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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 21, Wilderness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. One type of outdoor recreation enthusiast is the kind that wanders in the woods searching for what?
(a) The "perfect place".
(b) Rare plants and birds.
(c) Mushrooms.
(d) The wilderness.

2. Who lives in the hollow oak trees?
(a) Squirrels.
(b) Coons.
(c) All the above.
(d) Bees.

3. For how long does the faithful oak tree provide wood for the narrator's family?
(a) 40 years.
(b) 80 years.
(c) 20 years.
(d) 60 years.

4. According to the narrator, today the honey-colored hills of the northwest mountains are covered with what?
(a) Degrading hay.
(b) Cheat grass.
(c) Bunchgrass.
(d) Old alfalfa fields.

5. The narrator believes that wildlife administrators are too busy figuring out what to shoot at rather than paying attention to what?
(a) What is happening to the wildlife.
(b) The false advertisments.
(c) The cultural values of shooting.
(d) The type of guns being used.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do plovers nest?

2. Getting up early is a vice of horned owls, stars, geese and what?

3. Where is the best place to place a trap for a chickadee?

4. Who or what destroys the painting the narrator describes?

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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