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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. What flower does the narrator write about in April?

2. In the morning sunlight, the painting is sprayed with what?

3. How long do birch trees usually live?

4. According to the narrator, some hunters get into the habit of getting up early from who or what?

5. What is the one thing that the narrator believes really kills a chickadee?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why does the narrator consider the oak tree special?

3. What do people learn by banding birds?

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

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

6. Why does the narrator see his disease plagued woods as a blessing?

7. What is the most basic principle of ecology according to the narrator?

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

9. Why is the flora in the area shrinking?

10. When the narrator sees two woodcocks sky dance, what does he not know about them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Leopold's view of the "gadget industry", tourism, and the advertising industries, with respect to wildlife and the wilderness. What roles do each play? How do they interact with nature? With each other? Give examples from the book.

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

Leopold describes his travels to some specific areas. Choose one of these. Describe the area that is involved and what the environment is. Why does Leopold include this specific area? How does this relate to his land ethic?

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