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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do plovers nest?

2. What do people follow, since there is so little going on in nature in January?

3. What or who kills the oak tree?

4. Where does the meadow mouse live in the winter?

5. The narrator says that different hunts have different what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the narrator call a real gift in his woods?

2. Why does the narrator say that most paintings become famous?

3. Why does the narrator like the time when it floods?

4. Where do tamaracks grow?

5. What does the narrator believe are the three commandments of the chickadees?

6. Why do pines have the reputation of being green year round?

7. Why does a person not return for a second viewing of the "painting" that the author likes to view?

8. What is the narrator trying to record when he goes out in the morning?

9. Why does the narrator say that November is the month of the axe?

10. The narrator says that the migratory habits of the upland plover proves that nature knows what?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Leopold's land ethic. Be sure to include a discussion of the following: ethics in general, what the land ethic is, the reason why he developes this ethic, the premises behind the land ethic, and the implications of the land ethic for people.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the biotic pyramid. What is it? How does it work? How does it relate to the land ethic? How does it relate to the balance of nature view?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss the role of governmental policies and regulations with respect to wildlife and wilderness. Are the policies consistent? What interests do they mean to protect - wildlife or people? Or does it depend on the circumstances? What are Leopold's views? Use the migratory birds and grizzly bears as examples.

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