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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. All the trees in the area date to what time?
(a) 1850s and 1860s.
(b) 1810s and 1820s.
(c) 1830s and 1840s.
(d) 1870s and 1880s.

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

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

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

5. Before human settlers, the prairie lands are in a war against what?
(a) Animals.
(b) Winds.
(c) Fires.
(d) Weather.

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

7. Where does the upland plover spend the winter?
(a) The South Pole.
(b) Argentina.
(c) Canada.
(d) Central America.

8. When do the plover go back to Argentina?
(a) When their chicks are grown.
(b) At the beginning of winter.
(c) When the air turns too cool for them.
(d) At the end of summer.

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

10. What is the best way to hunt partridge?
(a) Walk through the mountains.
(b) Walk between berry bushes.
(c) Make a plan of what to do.
(d) Walk along the path at the marsh.

11. What kind of trees do the narrator and dog arrive at during their hunt?
(a) Bur Oak.
(b) Oaks.
(c) Alders.
(d) Willow.

12. What tree does the narrator have a bias towards?
(a) Willow.
(b) Birch.
(c) Oak.
(d) Pine.

13. What do people follow, since there is so little going on in nature in January?
(a) Bird nestings.
(b) Animal tracks.
(c) Plant growth.
(d) Bird migrations.

14. What is one thing that nobody knows about the woodcock and the dance?
(a) Where it ends.
(b) When it occurs.
(c) How long it lasts.
(d) Where the female bird is.

15. Why does the narrator like the hazel?
(a) It provides food for his grouse.
(b) It gives shade.
(c) It has a purple color.
(d) It is nearly extinct in his area.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When is the best time to hunt for grouse?

3. Why does the narrator love the tamarack?

4. What kind of predator follows the meadow mouse?

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

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