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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, April, Thundering Ice and Black Water.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Jim relate was the reason it had been difficult to find Chief Tibeash despite his many efforts?
(a) The north country was a sparsely populated area.
(b) Chief Tibeash had moved away for a time.
(c) The north country was very rugged and heavily wooded.
(d) Indians did not leave forwarding addresses.

2. Without a heavy pack, what was listed as the average speed one could hike on a good trail?
(a) From 1.5 to 2 miles per hour.
(b) From 2 to 2.5 miles per hour.
(c) From 3 to 3.5 miles per hour.
(d) From 2.5 to 3 miles per hour.

3. Jim made bait rods for fishing from what in February?
(a) Collapsible automobile radio antenas.
(b) Spruce pine sapplings.
(c) Old fencing foils.
(d) Old rifle cleaning rods.

4. What mythological figure was January named after that had two faces so he could look ahead and behind simultaneously?
(a) Junos.
(b) Janes.
(c) Janus.
(d) Julian.

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) Brown.
(b) Snow white.
(c) Pink.
(d) Cream.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How was Chief Tibeash's hunting sled curved up in the front?

3. When the sap was running freely, how many gallons were obtained per day from a good tree?

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

5. In April, in the marshy area near the spring, the initial purple and green hoods of what plant would show?

(see the answer key)

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