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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, what is sportsmanship aimed at getting rid of?
(a) Guns.
(b) Bullets that kill many animals at once.
(c) Gadgets.
(d) Decoys.

2. What sport does the narrator think is very corrupt?
(a) Duck hunting.
(b) Deer hunting.
(c) Fishing.
(d) Fox hunting.

3. Why does the state start to get rid of wolves?
(a) To optimize hunting.
(b) To permit hikers to use the mountains.
(c) Because they cause so many problems.
(d) To allow farmers to raise chickens.

4. The narrator likens the hunter in the Sierra Madres to what?
(a) Bears.
(b) Conquistadors.
(c) Soldiers.
(d) Monkeys.

5. What forms a lake in Wisconsin that is half as long as the state itself?
(a) Man.
(b) A volcano.
(c) A glacier.
(d) A mammoth rock slide.

6. When does the narrator kill his first partridge?
(a) In his third hunting season.
(b) In his first hunting season.
(c) In his fourth hunting season.
(d) In his second hunting season.

7. What makes cheat grass inedible for the livestock?
(a) Thorns.
(b) Prickly awns.
(c) Hard stem.
(d) Thick leaves.

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

9. The narrator believes that conservation is the state of harmony between the land and what?
(a) Man.
(b) Animals.
(c) Nature.
(d) Plants.

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

11. What animals are National Parks not able to protect?
(a) Larger carnivores.
(b) Field mice.
(c) Migrating birds.
(d) Owls.

12. What governmental district does the bus pass through?
(a) Iowa County Conservation District.
(b) Green River Soil Conservation District.
(c) Red River Soil Conservation District.
(d) State Conservation District.

13. What bird is only found only in the sand counties?
(a) The jackpine.
(b) The golden duck.
(c) The woodpecker.
(d) The clay colored sparrow.

14. What steers the course of history, according to scientists?
(a) Power.
(b) Evolution.
(c) Plant succession.
(d) Economics.

15. What kind of tree does the State College want the farmers to plant?
(a) Cottonwood.
(b) Pine.
(c) Oaks.
(d) Chinese elm.

Short Answer Questions

1. When the narrator sees the air hole, what does he decide to do?

2. According to the narrator, recreation becomes what kind of process?

3. When the bus passes through a cemetery, what plant does the narrator see?

4. Chapter 14 begins with a bus ride through which state?

5. What is cachinilla?

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