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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did John go to the top of the dome?
(a) To spend time alone in nature.
(b) To swim in a hot spring.
(c) To hunt.
(d) To draw.

2. What term did John use to refer to sheep in Chapter 7?
(a) Natural diversions.
(b) Hoofed locusts.
(c) Meadow companions.
(d) Woolly rats.

3. What caused John to start drifting off to sleep while working for his father?
(a) Venom from a snake.
(b) Dehydration.
(c) Exhaustion.
(d) Carbonic gas.

4. What was one of John's favorite playgrounds?
(a) Fountain Lake.
(b) Old Dunbar Castle.
(c) Lake Econlockhatchee.
(d) Hickory Hill.

5. When did John have an accident that led him to commit to wilderness life?
(a) January, 1863.
(b) March, 1867.
(c) October, 1867.
(d) June, 1899.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was at the top of the ice cone?

2. What did John decide to do regarding bears after his second encounter?

3. How tall was the ice cone?

4. Where did John's father take the family in Chapter 2?

5. How long did the family of the boat's owner have to take care of John when he became sick?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did John and his siblings do on the family's land? Why?

2. How did John get across an area he could not pass in Chapter 5?

3. How did John feel about city life?

4. What did John do in 1869?

5. What did John do in the days after his first encounter with a bear?

6. Explain John's second encounter with a bear.

7. What are "scoochers?" Give one example.

8. What were John's geographical movements at the beginning of Chapter 6? What work did he do at this time?

9. What was the winter like in Yosemite Valley? How did the people and animals deal with the weather?

10. Explain John's climbing of the ice cone.

(see the answer keys)

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