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

2. How did John and the bear react in their first encounter?
(a) Both were angered.
(b) They ignored each other.
(c) Both tried to be dominant.
(d) Both were frightened.

3. How old was John when his family relocated in Chapter 3?
(a) 18.
(b) 21.
(c) 16.
(d) 19.

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

5. How long did John have to wait before the boat started its journey in Chapter 5?
(a) One month.
(b) Six weeks.
(c) One week.
(d) Two weeks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did John's father move the family in Chapter 3?

2. What was replaced on the Yosemite, according to Chapter 10?

3. What kind of life did John say was unnatural?

4. Where did John arrive at the beginning of Chapter 6?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did John and his siblings learn about their home? Who tells them?

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

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

4. What did the residents of Yosemite Valley think of John?

5. What happened when John reached Yosemite Falls?

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

7. How did John feel about city life?

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

9. What happened to John when he was finishing the well that needed to be dug on the family's land?

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

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