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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. Who was NOT one of the friends John is probably referring to in Chapter 17?

2. What composed the lake John took his friends to?

3. What does John want to track the origin of in Chapter 12?

4. In what season did the events of Chapter 17 probably occur?

5. Why did John have to move around the base of the mountain before climbing it?

Short Essay Questions

1. What advice did John give to people experiencing storms?

2. What happened to John on his climb of Mount Ritter that ranked it among one of his most difficult?

3. How did John feel about the view at Tenaya Canyon? How do you know?

4. Who was Reverend S. Hall Young? Why was he in Alaska?

5. Compare and contrast the reaction of the white settlers to John's reaction to the earthquake.

6. What did John argue about glacial activity? What did this lead him to do?

7. What happened to Reverend Young while he was with John climbing mountains?

8. Explain John's view of trees.

9. Why was John's judgment obscured in the incident on Mono Lake?

10. How does the account of John's climb up Mount Shasta by Augustus Frederick Rodgers differ from John's account?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

Describe the ice cone. Why did John want to explore it? What did he learn from it?

Essay Topic 3

Compare and contrast John's adventures alone with his adventures with companions. Why are there such differences in his adventures with companions?

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