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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 change in the landscape.
(b) The changing climate.
(c) The change in the food supply.
(d) The coming of man.

2. The logging company uses dangerous ________________ to get rid of the trees.
(a) Large chainsaws.
(b) Small explosions..
(c) Poisonous sprays.
(d) Felling tools.

3. The author observes a pair of swallows in a nest by his cabin and how quickly they move on with their lives when ____________.
(a) They are injured while protecting their nest.
(b) Their nest is destroyed.
(c) Their baby birds are killed.
(d) Their eggs hatch.

4. His traveling companion is a ____________ that he took out of the nest when it was still a baby.
(a) Raven.
(b) Robin.
(c) Sparrow.
(d) Bluejay.

5. Eventually, what does Jack do?
(a) He flies away from the author and the cabin and does not return.
(b) He attacks the author.
(c) He moves back home.
(d) He returns to school.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. 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?

3. When Europeans arrive, why do they clear the land?

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

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

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