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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 want to see at the Sierra Nevada?
(a) The waterfalls.
(b) The peaks.
(c) The lights.
(d) The valleys.

2. According to Chapter 4, when did John have free time?
(a) Around midnight.
(b) During lunch.
(c) After dusk.
(d) Before dawn.

3. Where did John arrive at the beginning of Chapter 6?
(a) San Francisco.
(b) Galveston.
(c) London.
(d) Madison.

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

5. What did John climb in Chapter 10?
(a) A dam.
(b) A canyon.
(c) A mountain.
(d) A tree.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what month was John born?

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

3. In what year does Chapter 2 begin?

4. How did residents of Yosemite feel about John, according to Chapter 9?

5. How high did snow pile up on the Yosemite?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain avalanche-riding. What was John's experience with it?

2. How did John feel about city life?

3. Explain John's eye injury, and what happened afterward.

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

5. What happened when John reached Yosemite Falls?

6. What did John do in the fall of 1869? What did readers learn about him at the end of Chapter 8?

7. Explain John's bout with a fever in Chapter 5.

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

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

10. Where did John want to go in Chapter 5? What concerns did he have about it?

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