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1. Emerson claims that nature never becomes this thing to someone who is wise

a toy.

a joke.

a promise.

a secret.

None of the above

Question 2. 2. Cronon uses this image as an example of the wilderness that he finds to be most important.

A hill in Wisconsin on a rainy day.

El Capitan in Yosemite National Park.

The woods by a beach in Northern Michigan.

A herd of bison grazing in the Great Plains.

None of the above.

Question 3. 3. Cronon's thesis is that the wilderness is an antidote against the problem of the relationship between culture and the non-human world.

True

False

Question 4. 4. Leopold claims that a land ethic changes the human from conquerer of the world to

steward.

ruler.

citizen.

scientist.

None of the above

Question 5. 5. According to Cronon, humans can experience true responsibility for nature when they

engage in self-aware criticism of the way they engage nature.

move out of society into a more primitive lifestyle.

think of nature as a "Big Outside."

maintain a frontier ideal of rugged individualism.

None of the above.

Question 6. 6. Leopold claims that a land ethic does the following:

Refuses at all times to use nature as a resource

Makes humans unimportant in the chain of existence

Affirms the right of nature to a future existence

Claims rights of the human as supreme member of the community

All of the above.

Question 7. 7. Cronon argues that a major factor in the creation of the wilderness myth was the removal of Native Americans to give the land a sense that it was uninhabited.

True

False

Question 8. 8. One core myth of the American frontier was that it was the last place to create true community (Cronon article).

True

False

Question 9. 9. Cronon claims that people 250 years ago experienced the wilderness as beautiful and comforting.
True

False

Question 10. 10. For Kowalski, people are merely the play of material forces and particles governed by natural laws.
True

False