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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. What did John decide to do regarding bears after his second encounter?
(a) Avoid them.
(b) Try to befriend them.
(c) Hunt them.
(d) Give them notice of his coming.

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

3. What kind of life did John say was unnatural?
(a) Monastic life.
(b) Farm life.
(c) City life.
(d) Marriage.

4. How far down into the ice cone could John see?
(a) About 140 feet.
(b) About 10 feet.
(c) All the way to the bottom.
(d) About 40 feet.

5. Why did John's father move the family in Chapter 3?
(a) The soil is poor where they are.
(b) He loses his job.
(c) His job transfers him to a new state.
(d) He's tired of the area.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did John explore the Sierra Nevada, according to Chapter 8?

2. What was the year at the beginning of Chapter 6?

3. From where did John earn a degree?

4. What did John travel to the top of a few days after his first encounter with the bear?

5. How long was John given to recover after he nearly drifted off to sleep working for his father?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happened when Daniel encouraged his children to imitate frogs to learn to swim? How did John react?

2. Who was John's father? What kind of man was he? How do you know?

3. How did John feel about shepherding? How did he deal with his feelings?

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

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

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

7. What two characteristics are common to Scottish children, according to John?

8. Describe the ice cone.

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

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

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