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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why doesn't the woodcock dance in the brush or grass?
(a) It has short legs.
(b) It won't attract the female.
(c) Its wings are too long.
(d) It is afraid it gets caught.

2. What animal does the narrator kill first with his gun?
(a) A squirrel.
(b) A duck.
(c) An icewart.
(d) A rabbit.

3. In the narrator's view, wilderness is the raw material that man uses to create what?
(a) National Parks.
(b) Recreational areas.
(c) Civilization.
(d) Frontier areas.

4. How many acres of land does the narrator legally own?
(a) 12.
(b) 100.
(c) 50.
(d) 120.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When does the State Conservation Department begin to rebuild the river?

2. In 1937, the narrator bands how many chickadees?

3. Pines grow better if they are around certain types of what?

4. Where does the narrator go to see silphium?

5. When does the woodcock begins his show every year?

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