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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who does the narrator ask to help cut down the oak tree?
(a) A friend.
(b) He does it alone.
(c) His neighbor.
(d) His son.

2. Who or what destroys the painting the narrator describes?
(a) Water.
(b) A storm.
(c) Wind.
(d) A person.

3. Where do the narrator and his friends wait out the storm?
(a) In the forest.
(b) Inside.
(c) Outside under the house.
(d) In the garage.

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

5. Why do humans begin to destroy the plover?
(a) They get in the way.
(b) They are a nuisance.
(c) They like to eat them.
(d) They are destroying crops.

6. What does the narrator's dog do when the narrator misses a shot?
(a) Stays where the partidge is.
(b) Barks.
(c) Finds another partridge.
(d) Walks away.

7. The narrator says that the geese are good at what?
(a) Returning to where they are born.
(b) Flying long distances.
(c) International commerce.
(d) Eating while flying.

8. How long do pine trees usually live?
(a) 100 years.
(b) 50 years.
(c) 25 years.
(d) 1,000 years.

9. People tend to ignore song birds that do what?
(a) Sing long songs.
(b) Sing all the time.
(c) Sing only in the evening.
(d) Sing only part of the time.

10. Why does the chickadee come by when a person is out chopping trees?
(a) It senses danger.
(b) To investigate the noise.
(c) It likes people.
(d) To get food.

11. The book begins in January with what type of weather or environment?
(a) The midwinter blizzards.
(b) The January thaw.
(c) The January snow.
(d) The ice storms.

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

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

14. The narrator says that the geese are making this journey since when?
(a) The 1800s.
(b) The Pleistocene era.
(c) The 1200s.
(d) The Ice Age.

15. How long does it take the chicks to grow up and learn to fly after they hatch?
(a) 4 months.
(b) 30 days.
(c) 2 months.
(d) 90 days.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do animals generally move during this time in January?

2. What is the best way to hunt partridge?

3. In June, the robin starts singing in the early morning, but in autumn, when does the robin sing?

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

5. How many acres of land does the narrator legally own?

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