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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 admire while eating lunch?
(a) The grouse.
(b) The countryside.
(c) The young golden tamaracks.
(d) His dog.

2. The narrator says that different hunts have different what?
(a) Patterns.
(b) Smells.
(c) Flavors.
(d) Time limits.

3. Where do plovers nest?
(a) Barns.
(b) Hayfields.
(c) Under the ground.
(d) Trees.

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

5. What kind of tracks are seen in the painting?
(a) People tracks.
(b) Tire tracks.
(c) There are no tracks in the painting.
(d) Animal tracks.

6. How long does it take silphium to mature?
(a) Probably a year.
(b) Probably a millenium.
(c) Probably five years.
(d) Probably a decade.

7. In 1937, the narrator bands how many chickadees?
(a) 4.
(b) 14.
(c) 21.
(d) 7.

8. Most geese travel in families of how many?
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twelve.
(d) Six.

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

10. The narrator says that geese make these migratory journeys where?
(a) Only in the United States.
(b) Only in the eastern hemisphere.
(c) Only in the western hemisphere.
(d) Throughout the world.

11. What animal is playing on the green turf in the painting?
(a) Deer.
(b) Prairie dogs.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Mice.

12. How many winters do the longest survivor of the narrator's banded chickadee group live?
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Two.
(d) Six.

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

14. Who bathes in the the pools of the painting?
(a) Robins.
(b) Fish.
(c) Goldfinches.
(d) Deer.

15. Who does the narrator say is the first animal to awaken in January?
(a) Hawk.
(b) Bear.
(c) Skunk.
(d) Mouse.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. According to the introduction, the first twelve chapters of the book generally are a description of what?

3. How long do birch trees usually live?

4. In the morning sunlight, the painting is sprayed with what?

5. All the trees in the area date to what time?

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