07 Jan Office workers

Question 1. Question :

Who does Snyder think is responsible for the war against nature in “The Call of the Wild?”

Americans

Animals

The government

The speaker’s sons

Question 2. Question :

Abbey advocates using sabotage in order to protect the American wilderness.

True False

Question 3. Question :

Why did the narrator of “May’s Lion” decide to retell her story?

To correct May’s version

To give dignity to May’s version

To make May’s version universal

To make May’s version known

Question 4. Question :

What is the purpose of Snyder’s “The Call of the Wild?”

To promote industry

To promote deforestation

To denounce Americans’ agenda of anti-environmentalism

To advance the author’s agenda

Question 5. Question :

What is the purpose of “The Mending Wall?”

To question arbitrary human division of nature

To divide land equally among neighbors

To enforce land ownership rights

To promote fence building

Question 6. Question :

Who does Huxley believe is most susceptible to the constraints of time?

Greeks

Orientals

Indians

Americans or Englishmen

Question 7. Question :

What does Abbey claim is attacking the American wilderness in “Eco-Defense?”

The public

Legislators

Industrial megamachine

Commercial and industrial interests

Question 8. Question :

Why did the mountain lion visit May in the narrator’s retelling in “May’s Lion?”

To give birth

To die

To find food

To attack Rose

Question 9. Question :

Huxley believes that the loss of reliance on natural, cosmic time will benefit American society.

True False

Question 10. Question :

What does Huxley claim is our tyrant?

Factories

Time

Office workers

Machines