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Take our free Underland quiz below, with 25 multiple choice questions that help you test your knowledge. Determine which chapters, themes and styles you already know and what you need to study for your upcoming essay, midterm, or final exam. Take the free quiz now!

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

How do urban explorers think of their subculture, according to MacFarlane? (from Second Chamber - Chapter 5)

As explorers, travellers and partiers.

As tramps who resist the standards of life above ground.

As pioneers of a new, more democratic society underground.

A radical act of disobediance and liberation.

2.

What items does MacFarlane receive to carry with him on his journeys underland? (from First Chamber - Chapter 1)

An eagle's feather and an owl figurine.

An owl figurine and a double-cast bronze casket the size of an egg.

A double-cast bronze casket and a feather.

A raven figurine and a swan's egg.

3.

What model of forest life did Canadian forest ecologist Suzanne Simard propose in the 1990s? (from Chapter 4)

That forests were collaborative systems full of interrelationships.

That forests were competitive systems where the strong survived and the weak perished.

That the collaborative systems of a forest communicate through trees.

That fungi were the basis of all the systems in the forest.

4.

What does the hero of the Kalevala, Finland's folk epic, wear to protect himself when he travels to the underland? (from Chapters 12 - 13)

A copper shield.

Copper shoes and an iron shirt.

A bronze shield made for him by a god.

Shoes and a shirt made from bronze.

5.

What is crown shyness? (from Chapter 4)

When tree roots respect each other's space and leave gaps underground.

When trees respect each other's space and leave gaps in the canopy.

When biologists and ecologists are too humble to be celebrated for their achievements.

When other organisms of the forest avoid the canopy of the forest to leave it for trees.

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