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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many of the fish that the narrator catches are record breakers in size?
(a) Four.
(b) None.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

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

3. How long does it take the chicks to grow up and learn to fly after they hatch?
(a) 30 days.
(b) 90 days.
(c) 4 months.
(d) 2 months.

4. Getting up early is a vice of horned owls, stars, geese and what?
(a) Freight trains.
(b) Mice.
(c) Grouse.
(d) Dogs.

5. Who or what destroys the painting the narrator describes?
(a) A person.
(b) Wind.
(c) A storm.
(d) Water.

Short Answer Questions

1. A person tells a lot about animals' feeding habits during a season by looking at what?

2. What is the best way to hunt partridge?

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

4. What tree does the narrator write about in April?

5. Why don't people ignore all these wild plants?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator believe are the three commandments of the chickadees?

2. What distinction does the narrator make between the muskrat and the geese?

3. Why does a person not return for a second viewing of the "painting" that the author likes to view?

4. How does the meadow mouse live in the winter?

5. What is the main argument of this book?

6. Who or what is the third enemy of the plover?

7. The narrator says that the only thing people hope for with respect to this painting is what?

8. What do people learn by banding birds?

9. What is the most basic principle of ecology according to the narrator?

10. How does the bur oak survive the prairie fires?

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