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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 time of day did John decide to climb in Chapter 15?

2. How many times did John climb Mount Shasta?

3. How tall is Mount Shasta?

4. How did the Yosemite indigenous react to the natural event?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the artists react when John returned from his climb of Mount Ritter? Why?

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

3. Explain John's view of trees.

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

5. Describe John's third encounter with a rattlesnake. How did this change his treatment of them?

6. What difficulties did John face on a survey in the wilderness with Captain A. F. Rodgers?

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

8. What happened at the beginning of John's exploration of Tenaya Canyon? How did he react to it?

9. Describe the adventure John had with a small dog in Chapter 20.

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

Explain the role instinct played in John's adventures. Use at least one example from the book to support your position.

Essay Topic 2

Explain John's Muir's last adventure, according to The Wild Muir.

Essay Topic 3

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

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