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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. What caused the animals in the region to change?
(a) The coming of man.
(b) The changing climate.
(c) The change in the landscape.
(d) The change in the food supply.

2. The trees that now populate the region are the trees of __________.
(a) A cooler climate.
(b) Those planted by man.
(c) A more populated region.
(d) A warmer, temperate climate.

3. While the author is working on building the new outhouse, what must he make a trip into town to get?
(a) A hammer.
(b) Some nails.
(c) Some scrap lumber.
(d) Some wood glue.

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

5. What does "Adams Hill" describe?
(a) A favorite sledding hill.
(b) The author's family.
(c) A local cemetery.
(d) The land around the cabin and the family who first settled in the area.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Scrap Lumber" describes the author's daily routine of ___________.

2. Giant piles of gravel, steep ridges, and ponds are all evidence of ___________.

3. 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?

4. After the evening chorus dies off, what does the author do?

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

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