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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 steers the course of history, according to scientists?
(a) Power.
(b) Economics.
(c) Plant succession.
(d) Evolution.

2. According to the narrator, who or what is responsible for the last of the grizzlies being shot?
(a) Progress.
(b) The federal government.
(c) The State Department of Fish and Game.
(d) Congressmen.

3. What river does the narrator talk about in Chapter 13?
(a) The Sasquehena.
(b) The Flambeau.
(c) The Porterville.
(d) The Wisconsin River.

4. The narrator believes that wildlife administrators are too busy figuring out what to shoot at rather than paying attention to what?
(a) The cultural values of shooting.
(b) What is happening to the wildlife.
(c) The type of guns being used.
(d) The false advertisments.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. According to the narrator in Chapter 17, what is accepted as a necessary evil in the northwestern foothills?

2. Recreation is an economic resource of the government, but the narrator believes that it also has what kind of component to it?

3. What flower does the narrator describe as blooming in the sand?

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

5. According to the narrator, when he kills his first wolf what does he see in its eyes?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why does the narrator say that nobody knows all the terrain on top of the White Mountain?

2. According to the narrator, what is the numenon and what is its opposite?

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

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

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. How does the narrator believe conservation is taught?

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

9. What does the narrator consider to be part of the tragedy of the extinction of the passenger pigeon?

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

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