A Wind-Storm In The Forest Analysis

Question 0

A.W.I.T.F is the only work in his selection that is not what?

Answer 0

A verse, it is however a prose narrative

Question 1

A Wind Storm In The Forest was originally which chapter of John Muir’s book The Mountains of California, which was published in 1894?

Answer 1

The tenth chapter

Question 2

How is Muir’s writing best categorized?

Answer 2

By meticulously detailed observations of natural phenomena growing out of an exhilarated first person narrative

Question 3

What kind of mindset does Muir demonstrate in his writings?

Answer 3

An ecological mindset

Question 4

Ecology is the study of….

Answer 4

The study of living things and how they interact with each other in the physical environment

Question 5

Is Ecology systematic or holistic science?

Answer 5

Both

Question 6

This selection reveals his knowledge of what?

Answer 6

Coniferous trees of the Sierra Nevada

Question 7

How tall does a sugar pine grow, according to John Muir?

Answer 7

200 feet

Question 8

This recount is from a fictional life. True or False?

Answer 8

False he is the narrator and this is an account from his own life.

Question 9

Why did Muir climb the tree?

Answer 9

To get his ear close to the Æolian music of the topmost needles

Question 10

The Æolian harp is an important part of which selection?

Answer 10

Homer’s Odyssey

Question 11

The selection can be described as?

Answer 11

Anthropomorphic, but not anthropocentric

Question 12

For Muir, trees and plant have which characteristics?

Answer 12

Individuality in the fact that they all have something very special to say

Question 13

Coniferous trees are:

Answer 13

Softwoods

Question 14

Deciduous trees are:

Answer 14

Hardwoods

Question 15

Muir is compared to as one of the characters in whose paintings?

Answer 15

Albert Bierstadt

Question 16

Anthropomorphism paradoxically exists to resist what?

Answer 16

Anthropocentrism

Question 17

How does the storm end?

Answer 17

In tranquility

Question 18

Which religion’s God does Muir refer to in this piece?

Answer 18

The Judeo-Christian God

Question 19

How does Muir change the holy temple?

Answer 19

He situated it in the woods instead of a traditional temple

Question 20

In the end the speaker becomes witness to immanence, what is that?

Answer 20

The presence of the divine in the material world

Question 21

This piece has a hint of what literary format?

Answer 21

This piece has a hint of pastoral