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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, February, The Stars and the Silence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jim recommended which tool as the most valuable in the woods?
(a) Your compass.
(b) Your gun.
(c) Your axe.
(d) Your knife.

2. What was described as a good way to store fish in the winter?
(a) Pickled in vinegar.
(b) Dried and smoked.
(c) Frozen in the ice.
(d) Wrapped in leaves and bark.

3. What was described as the greatest mistake a man could make leaving camp without doing?
(a) Packing a full canteen of water.
(b) Telling friends the direction one was headed.
(c) Taking matches and a knife.
(d) Taking one's compass and a knife.

4. What was served at the January picnic under the big spruce?
(a) Venison steaks, onion rings, potatoes, and biscuits.
(b) Bear steaks, squash, sweet potatoes, and rolls.
(c) Turkey, carrots, salad, and cornbread.
(d) Broiled fish, green beans, dumplings, and pie.

5. Great horned mother owls have nested in late February with the young beneath the mother's wings and covered in what color fuzz?
(a) Pink.
(b) Brown.
(c) Cream.
(d) Snow white.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Cache Lake country was a land of what type of terrain?

2. What birds were seen as they first flew up and struck weed tops, and then settled and fed on seeds that fell in the snow?

3. For sleeping in the open during winter, it was stated there was nothing to equal what kind of a robe?

4. What time of year was it when Jim first came upon Cache Lake?

5. How many northern lakes had author John J. "Jim" Rowlands said he had seen when he happened upon Cache Lake?

(see the answer key)

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