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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 are the fastest shrinking wilderness areas?

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

3. According to the narrator in Chapter 17, what is accepted as a necessary evil in the northwestern foothills?

4. According to the narrator in Chapter 14, what is the purpose of the farms they are passing by?

5. The narrator discusses the travel of what through time?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Why does the State Conservation Department buy back land along the Flambeau River?

7. What two ideas that are part of the split-rail value does the narrator say the pioneer period creates?

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

9. What does the narrator state is the main premise for ethics and the environment?

10. What are the conditions that the narrator's father set when he gives the narrator permission to shoot partridges?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss Leopold's view of wildlife in American culture. What are the three different values that people have when it comes to nature? Which are most important and why? What roles do wildlife managers and administrators play?

Essay Topic 2

Leopold writes that he is the "sole owner of all the acres [he] walks over". Discuss. What does he mean? What is the context within the book? Does he mean this literally? How does this relate to his view of land?

Essay Topic 3

Discuss Leopold's view of wilderness recreation. How does this fit with his land ethic? What is the value of this type of recreation to people? What are his five components of the recreational process?

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