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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. In Chapter 14, what are the grandfather and grandson cutting down?
(a) Cottonwood tree.
(b) Oak tree.
(c) Pine tree.
(d) Chinese elm tree.

3. What is cachinilla?
(a) A drink.
(b) A shrub.
(c) An animal.
(d) A bird.

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

5. What flower does the narrator describe as blooming in the sand?
(a) All of the above.
(b) The hydrangea.
(c) The dustwort.
(d) The draba.

6. Wildlife managers try to raise game in the wild by what means?
(a) Limiting the types of guns that are used.
(b) Manipulating the environment.
(c) Limiting the amount of wildlife that are killed.
(d) Limiting the length of the hunting season.

7. Who does the narrator think is the only one who listens to the wolf's howl objectively?
(a) The deer.
(b) The White Mountain.
(c) The farmer.
(d) The hunter.

8. When the bus passes through a cemetery, what plant does the narrator see?
(a) Draba.
(b) Pasque-flowers.
(c) Silphium.
(d) Puccoons.

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

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

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

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

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

14. When does the State Conservation Department begin to rebuild the river?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1947.
(d) 1945.

15. The narrator discusses the travel of what through time?
(a) An annimal.
(b) An atom.
(c) A bird.
(d) A tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does the narrator kill first with his gun?

2. 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?

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

4. Recreation is an economic resource of the government, but the narrator believes that it also has what kind of component to it?

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

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