Reading Comprehension Quiz (Aldo Leopold, “The Land Ethic”)

Reading Comprehension Quiz

Aldo Leopold, “The Land Ethic”

Read “The Land Ethic” and check your comprehension by answering the following questions. Click the submit button when finished.

Question According to Leopold, in paragraph 4, what two unlikely things have created a symbiotic relationship?

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Question Leopold opens his essay with a reference to the slave-girls in The Odyssey. What does he compare them to?

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Question Ethics rest upon a single premise:

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Question How does Leopold explain the settlement of lands by people?

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Question Why did the settlements of New Mexico fail?

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Question To whom did the Wisconsin Legislature give the power to create rules governing land use in 1937?

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Question Leopold distinguishes between two groups of conservationists. What is the dividing issue?

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Question What is the primary stopping point of people having an ethical relationship with the land, according to Leopold?

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