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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In the narrator's view, wilderness is the raw material that man uses to create what?
(a) Civilization.
(b) National Parks.
(c) Recreational areas.
(d) Frontier areas.

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

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

4. According to the narrator, who or what is responsible for the last of the grizzlies being shot?
(a) The State Department of Fish and Game.
(b) The federal government.
(c) Progress.
(d) Congressmen.

5. According to the narrator in Chapter 17, what is accepted as a necessary evil in the northwestern foothills?
(a) Mosquitoes.
(b) Sagebrush.
(c) Cheat grass.
(d) Roaming cattle.

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

7. According to the narrator, wilderness for recreation is extremely what?
(a) Menacing.
(b) Useful.
(c) Overused.
(d) Needed by people.

8. In Chapter 13, the narrator discusses the extinction of what?
(a) The golden swallow.
(b) The passenger pigeon.
(c) The draba.
(d) The crane.

9. The narrator says that professors serve what?
(a) The environment.
(b) Their universities.
(c) The wilderness.
(d) Science.

10. According to the narrator, when he kills his first wolf what does he see in its eyes?
(a) Knowledge.
(b) Fire.
(c) Sadness.
(d) Nothing.

11. According to the narrator in Chapter 14, what is the purpose of the farms they are passing by?
(a) To preserve the land.
(b) To make money.
(c) To preserve a way of life.
(d) To grow food.

12. The narrator feels that as everyone strives for safety, prosperity and comfort, life becomes what?
(a) Dull.
(b) Predictable.
(c) Easier.
(d) Exciting.

13. Chapter 14 begins with a bus ride through which state?
(a) Idaho.
(b) Iowa.
(c) Wisconsin.
(d) Illinois.

14. What is another area of Wisconsin that the narrator has a deep love for?
(a) The sand counties.
(b) The lakes.
(c) The cities.
(d) The mountains.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator, the land ethic changes the role of humans from conquerors to what?

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

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

4. What kind of grass do the cattle love to eat?

5. The top of the White Mountain is originally only accessible to whom?

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