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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. How did John react when he spent a summer in the city?

2. On what lake did John live when his father relocated them in Chapter 2?

3. How far down into the ice cone could John see?

4. What did John do when he encountered the bear a second time?

5. In what canyon was the dome John went to the top of after his first encounter with the bear?

Short Essay Questions

1. Describe the ice cone.

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

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

4. What happened when John reached Yosemite Falls?

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

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

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

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

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

10. How did John feel about city life?

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

What is the Sierra Club? What was John Muir's role in it?

Essay Topic 3

Describe the events that led to John's commitment to a life in the wilderness.

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