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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. Who does the the state send to kill the bear?
(a) A state trooper.
(b) A bounty hunter.
(c) A government trapper.
(d) None of these.

2. What plant is the biggest problem in the northwestern foothills?
(a) Bunchgrass.
(b) Degrading hay.
(c) Cheat grass.
(d) Old alfalfa fields.

3. Chapter 14 begins with a bus ride through which state?
(a) Illinois.
(b) Idaho.
(c) Iowa.
(d) Wisconsin.

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

5. Who actually kills the bear?
(a) The state trooper.
(b) The bear shoots himself.
(c) A local farmer.
(d) The government trapper.

Short Answer Questions

1. The narrator believes that conservation is the state of harmony between the land and what?

2. What does the narrator call wildlife tourism?

3. What animal does the narrator kill first with his gun?

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

5. According to the narrator, today the honey-colored hills of the northwest mountains are covered with what?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How does peoples' ability to enjoy nature begin?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

(see the answer keys)

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