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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does the narrator hear when the sun comes up?
(a) Dogs barking.
(b) A tree falling.
(c) The neighbor's tractor.
(d) Animals moving.

2. How do animals generally move during this time in January?
(a) Swiftly.
(b) Very slowly.
(c) Very rapidly.
(d) Ambling along.

3. Where does the narrator go fishing?
(a) Sand County River.
(b) Alder Fork.
(c) Prairie Stream.
(d) Sand County Creek.

4. Pines do best when they are away from their parents, because they get their own what?
(a) Pollinators.
(b) Rain.
(c) Sunlight.
(d) Food.

5. When do birds in the early morning marsh leave for safer waters?
(a) Mid morning.
(b) When they hear noises.
(c) Once day breaks.
(d) When they wake up.

6. What tree does the narrator write about in April?
(a) Sycamore.
(b) Bur fir.
(c) Willow.
(d) Bur oak.

7. What is the first bird that the narrator hears singing?
(a) The yellow warblers.
(b) The sparrows.
(c) The cardinals.
(d) The plovers.

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

9. Getting up early is a vice of horned owls, stars, geese and what?
(a) Dogs.
(b) Mice.
(c) Freight trains.
(d) Grouse.

10. The narrator talks about the geese's inevitable flight to where?
(a) The north.
(b) The marshes of Sand County.
(c) Their original breeding ground.
(d) The south.

11. What kind of seedlings does the narrator describe?
(a) Fir.
(b) Corn.
(c) Evergreen.
(d) Oak.

12. Where is the best place to place a trap for a chickadee?
(a) In the tree.
(b) In the direction of the wind.
(c) Near a fallen tree.
(d) On the ground.

13. How many different kinds of pine tree are there in Wisconsin?
(a) Ten.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Twenty.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is a good indicator of whether a farmer protects his corn crop from deer?

2. According to the narrator, where do most people see silphium?

3. What does the narrator admire while eating lunch?

4. Why don't people ignore all these wild plants?

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

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