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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. In what season did John hike in Chapter 10?

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

4. What did the children discover about John's family home?

5. Who was the boat's owner whom John talked to about his passage?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did John feel about city life?

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

5. What did Daniel decide to do in 1857? Why did he do this?

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

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

8. Explain John's first encounter with a bear.

9. After his second encounter with a bear, explain how John's attitude and behavior toward bears changed.

10. What did John do in 1869?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain John's role in the preservation of wilderness in the Western Hemisphere, particularly the creation of Yosemite National Park.

Essay Topic 2

Compare and contrast John's reactions to the Inyo Earthquake with the reactions of the indigenous tribes and white settlers.

Essay Topic 3

Explain how John Muir spent his "retirement."

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