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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What was one of the greatest problems in the miners' camps?
(a) Work ethic.
(b) Illness.
(c) Crime.
(d) Starvation.
2. Why did Oliver Rowntree go on Ross and Raglan ships?
(a) To help load and unload.
(b) To sabotage them.
(c) To navigate them.
(d) The monitor trading transactions.
3. What did Shaffer say they had to build?
(a) A bigger boat.
(b) Their own airplane.
(c) A larger business.
(d) A road across Canada.
4. What did Malcolm Ross want Tom to build?
(a) A salmon cannery.
(b) A boat.
(c) A wagon.
(d) A factory.
5. What was LeRoy's rank after the attack at Pearl Harbor?
(a) Second Lieutenant.
(b) First Lieutenant.
(c) Lieutenant Corporal.
(d) General.
6. How did Nate Coop contribute to the war effort?
(a) Navy.
(b) Building highways.
(c) Aviation.
(d) Foot soldier.
7. What happened to Arikov's claim?
(a) He lost it.
(b) He struck the motherload.
(c) It was too difficult to work.
(d) It was dry.
8. What did the Venn's use for transportation to Venn's Lode?
(a) A boat.
(b) A horse.
(c) A car.
(d) A plane.
9. What city was proposed as a new capital of Alaska?
(a) Dawson City.
(b) Juneau.
(c) Klondike.
(d) Nome.
10. What did Venn experience as he managed the Chinese and Filipino workers?
(a) They had language barrier problems.
(b) Aside from a few glitches, everyone respected each other, and there was no trouble.
(c) Everything was very smooth.
(d) He experienced management problems.
11. What happened to the Montreal Queen?
(a) It sank in a storm.
(b) It brought more business.
(c) It was gunned down.
(d) It was crushed by a tidal wave.
12. What did the professors think about the trapping equipment which they had designed?
(a) They were concerned that the equipment was faulty.
(b) They were pleased that the salmon were taken care of.
(c) They were certain to catch all the salmon in their path.
(d) They thought enough salmon would escape the traps to maintain the salmon population.
13. What did George Washington Carmack find in the Yukon in 1896?
(a) Oil.
(b) Gold.
(c) Platinum.
(d) Silver.
14. What did Tom do after his mother moved in with John Klope?
(a) He ran away.
(b) He set off for the mines.
(c) He went panning for gold.
(d) He opened a branch of a general store.
15. When did the United States government begin to pay attention to the rights of native Alaskans?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1969.
(c) 1938.
(d) 1971.
Short Answer Questions
1. What was Tom Venn 's last year at Pleiades Glacier?
2. Where did they set up the new business?
3. What did LeRoy buy with the money Matt Murphy left him?
4. Alaska became what state of the union?
5. What did Tom think of Marvin Hoxey?
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