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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to the narrator, the land ethic changes the role of humans from conquerors to what?
(a) Teachers.
(b) Healers.
(c) Members of the biotic community.
(d) Students.

2. When the narrator goes with his brother to the Colorado Delta, they camp on an estuary near the place where what bird roosts?
(a) Gambel quail.
(b) Ducks.
(c) Geese.
(d) Grouse.

3. According to the narrator, today the honey-colored hills of the northwest mountains are covered with what?
(a) Cheat grass.
(b) Old alfalfa fields.
(c) Degrading hay.
(d) Bunchgrass.

4. Recreation is an economic resource of the government, but the narrator believes that it also has what kind of component to it?
(a) Esthetic.
(b) Evolutionary.
(c) Ecological.
(d) Ethical.

5. What are the fastest shrinking wilderness areas?
(a) Grasslands.
(b) Prairies.
(c) Coastlines.
(d) Forests.

6. What is one of the main birds that makes the marshland its home, as the marshes are moving northward to Canada?
(a) The grouse.
(b) The spotted warbler.
(c) The grebe.
(d) The sandwort.

7. What is on top of the White Mountain?
(a) A boneyard.
(b) Rocks.
(c) A meadow.
(d) A desert.

8. Who actually kills the bear?
(a) A local farmer.
(b) The bear shoots himself.
(c) The government trapper.
(d) The state trooper.

9. What is the numeon of the Sierra Madre?
(a) The bobcat.
(b) The geese.
(c) The grouse.
(d) The thick-billed parrot.

10. The narrator states that the level of violence on the land is directly related to what?
(a) Population density.
(b) The native animals.
(c) The health of the land.
(d) The native plants.

11. According to the narrator, recreation becomes what kind of process?
(a) Self-destructive.
(b) Mass use.
(c) Self-awareness.
(d) Evolutionary.

12. What animals do the grizzly bear eat in the spring?
(a) Livestock.
(b) Lions.
(c) Chickens.
(d) Deer.

13. The narrator believes that wildlife administrators are too busy figuring out what to shoot at rather than paying attention to what?
(a) The false advertisments.
(b) The type of guns being used.
(c) The cultural values of shooting.
(d) What is happening to the wildlife.

14. How many values does the narrator say that people have when it comes to nature?
(a) Many.
(b) Three.
(c) One.
(d) Five.

15. When too many people want the same trophies, what component of the trophy does this mass use problem decrease?
(a) The quality.
(b) The style.
(c) The color.
(d) The origin.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator think is the only one who listens to the wolf's howl objectively?

2. Who does the the state send to kill the bear?

3. Wildlife managers try to raise game in the wild by what means?

4. How much of the woods and mountains is already taken up by mechanized recreation?

5. According to the narrator, the difficult part about finding a way to return to nature is to find a way to do this without destroying what?

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