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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) Loss of excitement.
(b) Danger.
(c) Less prosperity.
(d) More predictability.

2. According to the narrator, the land ethic changes the role of humans from conquerors to what?
(a) Members of the biotic community.
(b) Students.
(c) Healers.
(d) Teachers.

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 believes that conservation is the state of harmony between the land and what?
(a) Man.
(b) Plants.
(c) Nature.
(d) Animals.

5. When the narrator finds the air hole in the frozen lake, what animal does he know comes?
(a) A rabbit.
(b) A deer.
(c) A duck.
(d) Fish.

Short Answer Questions

1. What bird is only found only in the sand counties?

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

3. What kind of tree does the State College want the farmers to plant?

4. 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?

5. According to the narrator, how many different components of the recreational process are there?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. What is meant by invasive species?

8. Why are public policies involved with outdoor recreation controversial?

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

10. Why should a person never return to nature twice?

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