View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How long do pine trees usually live?

2. Who does the narrator say is the first animal to awaken in January?

3. What is silphium?

4. What is a good indicator of whether a farmer protects his corn crop from deer?

5. What kind of tracks are seen in the painting?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What can people learn from animal tracks?

3. What happens when the narrator cuts down the oak tree?

4. With regards to hunting partridges, the narrator says that he and his dog have what kind of relationship?

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

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

7. What does the narrator consider the "big deal" when he catches three trout?

8. How does the meadow mouse live in the winter?

9. Why is the narrator unsuccessful in transplanting silphium?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Leopold's view of land health. What is his concept of land? What does he mean by land health? What are the competing views of land health amongst conservation scientists? Do we achieve land health? How?

Essay Topic 2

Leopold writes that what people involve in recreational development of the wilderness needs to build receptivity into peoples' minds and make them want to protect nature and appreciate it, without the roads that damage it. Discuss. What does he mean? How does this relate to his views on conservation? The land ethic?

Essay Topic 3

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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 727 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample