View a FREE sample

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did John encourage people to focus on during a storm?

2. Why did John do something different at the half-way point of the mountain?

3. What was eaten by the animals that John was initially prejudiced against, according to Chapter 11?

4. In what year did Chapter 15 occur?

5. On what day did John lead a party up Mount Shasta?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did the indigenous tribes of Yosemite react to the earthquake?

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

3. Who was William Keith? What was his relationship with John?

4. What happened on John's difficult climb up Mount Shasta?

5. Explain John's view of trees.

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

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

8. Describe John's tree-climbing experience.

9. Who probably were the three friends mentioned in the Mono Lake Windstorm adventure? What were their careers?

10. Where did John spend some time in the winter of 1872? How did he feel about this?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Explain why John was considered a risk-taker, including at least three examples of risky behavior from The Wild Muir.

Essay Topic 2

Explain how John's eye injury occurred when he worked in the factory and how that injury affected him on an adventure.

Essay Topic 3

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

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 627 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample