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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. According to the narrator, what are people not able to successfully control?
(a) Diseases.
(b) The health of the land.
(c) The growth of invasive species.
(d) Fires.

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

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

4. The narrator states that the level of violence on the land is directly related to what?
(a) The health of the land.
(b) The native plants.
(c) The native animals.
(d) Population density.

5. What does the bus pass through, after it passes State College?
(a) More farmland.
(b) Marsh area.
(c) Forest.
(d) Chicago.

Short Answer Questions

1. To the superficial eye, the Gavilan region is hard, stony and full of what?

2. What governmental district does the bus pass through?

3. When does the narrator buy a farm?

4. In the summer, the weather on White Mountain is unpredictable because of what?

5. What is on top of the White Mountain?

Short Essay Questions

1. According to the narrator, what is the one thing that cheat grass is good for?

2. What are the three different values listed by the narrator that people have when it comes to nature?

3. The narrator says that he thinks getting rid of the wolves means more deer, but this isn't the case in the long run. Why?

4. According to the narrator, what are two problems that humans face with regards to the wilderness?

5. Why does the State Conservation Department buy back land along the Flambeau River?

6. Why does the State College want farmers to plant Chinese elms rather than cottonwoods?

7. What does the narrator state is the main premise for ethics and the environment?

8. The narrator compares puccoons to what other plant and why?

9. According to the narrator, what do people need to do who are a part of recreational development?

10. The narrator states that State College is more concerned with beauty and ease than with what?

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