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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, too much safety in our lives means what in the long run?
(a) Less prosperity.
(b) Loss of excitement.
(c) More predictability.
(d) Danger.

2. According to the narrator, recreation becomes what kind of process?
(a) Self-destructive.
(b) Evolutionary.
(c) Mass use.
(d) Self-awareness.

3. What animal does the narrator kill first with his gun?
(a) A rabbit.
(b) A squirrel.
(c) A duck.
(d) An icewart.

4. Why does the dairy industry want to put a dam on the river?
(a) For preservation.
(b) For its use in dairy farming.
(c) For electricity.
(d) For recreation.

5. To the superficial eye, the Gavilan region is hard, stony and full of what?
(a) Rocks.
(b) Trees.
(c) Cliffs and slopes.
(d) Sand.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who actually kills the bear?

2. The narrator believes that the conservation movement is the first step to acknowledging that there is an ecological necessity to establish a code of ethics for the environment and what?

3. What forms a lake in Wisconsin that is half as long as the state itself?

4. Who does the narrator think is the only one who listens to the wolf's howl objectively?

5. In the narrator's view, wilderness is the raw material that man uses to create what?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Where is the history of the area of White Mountain recorded?

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

4. How does the narrator believe conservation is taught?

5. What two ideas that are part of the split-rail value does the narrator say the pioneer period creates?

6. What are the conditions that the narrator's father set when he gives the narrator permission to shoot partridges?

7. What is meant by invasive species?

8. According to the narrator, why do people not go to Escudillo?

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

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

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