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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 in Chapter 17, what is accepted as a necessary evil in the northwestern foothills?
(a) Sagebrush.
(b) Roaming cattle.
(c) Mosquitoes.
(d) Cheat grass.

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

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

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

5. What are the fastest shrinking wilderness areas?
(a) Prairies.
(b) Grasslands.
(c) Forests.
(d) Coastlines.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of grass do the cattle love to eat?

2. According to the narrator, who or what is responsible for the last of the grizzlies being shot?

3. What plant is the biggest problem in the northwestern foothills?

4. Who does the narrator meet at the river in Chapter 13?

5. 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?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the narrator believe conservation is taught?

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

3. What is the best way to manage national parks according to the narrator?

4. Why does the narrator find that the sand farms aren't as poor as people think?

5. What is meant by invasive species?

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

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

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

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

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

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