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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. What is the general topic of A Sand County?
(a) Birds.
(b) Animals.
(c) Environment.
(d) Conservation.

2. What tree does the narrator have a bias towards?
(a) Birch.
(b) Pine.
(c) Willow.
(d) Oak.

3. How many acres of land does the narrator legally own?
(a) 12.
(b) 120.
(c) 50.
(d) 100.

4. The narrator concludes that if there is a lone goose, it is caused by what?
(a) Getting lost.
(b) Being left behind.
(c) Animal involvement.
(d) Human involvement.

5. What animal do the cured oak leaves feed?
(a) Grouse.
(b) Coons.
(c) Wood ducks.
(d) Chickadees.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do pine trees usually live?

2. How many different kinds of pine tree are there in Wisconsin?

3. By following the deer tracks, the narrator finds out that the deer move about in an area approximately how long to find food from their bed?

4. What do people follow, since there is so little going on in nature in January?

5. When does the woodcock begins his show every year?

Short Essay Questions

1. How much land does the narrator say he owns?

2. What does the narrator call a real gift in his woods?

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

4. Why is the flora in the area shrinking?

5. What can people learn from animal tracks?

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

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

8. What is the narrator trying to record when he goes out in the morning?

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

10. What happens when the narrator cuts down the oak tree?

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