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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Urgency of Spring, June 12 Early Harvests, Jack, Bedrock, Time.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The author has observed that the small cemeteries are full of the families who first came to the area and that the majority of gravestones belong to whom?
(a) Children.
(b) Adults.
(c) Women.
(d) Men.

2. "The Time of Birdsong" describes the author's all-day observations of __________.
(a) The song and calls of the larks by his window.
(b) The birds he has captured in a cage.
(c) The ravens.
(d) The different calls and songs of the birds in the area.

3. The families have lived in the area since _________, and the author is a friend of the descendants of those first settlers.
(a) 1697.
(b) 1769.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1796.

4. A great glacier expands and retracts across North America for the last few _____________ years.
(a) Million.
(b) Trillion.
(c) Thousand.
(d) Billion.

5. "The Traveling Companion" begins with the author's description of his journey to ___________.
(a) The bog.
(b) His son's school.
(c) His cabin deep in the woods of Maine.
(d) His son's home in Vermont.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "Jack," what details are given about the author?

2. While the author is working on building the new outhouse, what must he make a trip into town to get?

3. What does the author find for Jack to sleep on?

4. The trees that now populate the region are the trees of __________.

5. The logging company uses dangerous ________________ to get rid of the trees.

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