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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 7, An Interview with a Bear, Chapter 8, In the Midst of the Yosemite Fall.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did John spend the little free time he had?
(a) Taking machines apart.
(b) Fixing machines.
(c) Inventing machines.
(d) Studying machines.

2. How many hours a day did John and his siblings work on the land for their father?
(a) 8.
(b) 17.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

3. What did John want to investigate in the early summer of 1869?
(a) Mount Shasta.
(b) Fountain Lake.
(c) Yosemite Falls.
(d) San Joaquin Valley.

4. Who told the children something frightening about John's family home?
(a) A groundskeeper.
(b) Their father.
(c) A nurse.
(d) A servant girl.

5. What did John travel to the top of a few days after his first encounter with the bear?
(a) West Dome.
(b) North Dome.
(c) South Dome.
(d) East Dome.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where was John born?

2. What concerned John about his destination in Chapter 5?

3. Why did John's father sell the crops the family grows?

4. What work did John have in the Yosemite Valley?

5. What two crops did John and his siblings help grow to be sold?

(see the answer key)

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