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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What does Jason want to do in Dawson City?
(a) Get a job.
(b) Get rid of Charlie.
(c) Find his brothers.
(d) Hunt for gold.
2. What makes the trip more pleasant for Jason?
(a) Knowing he is only a week from seeing his brother.
(b) The weather is nice.
(c) Having his dog with him.
(d) Having so many people around him.
3. What does spring do for the river?
(a) Makes it dry up.
(b) Makes it passable.
(c) It has no effect on the river.
(d) Makes it chunky with ice.
4. Who helps the people on the river keep moving?
(a) No one.
(b) Jack London.
(c) Mounties.
(d) Henderson.
5. Where are people who are lost stranded?
(a) Vaious mountain passes.
(b) By the shores of the river.
(c) In the woods below the mountains.
(d) Mostly in small fishing villages.
6. What does Jason decide he must do about the Mounties?
(a) Develop a plan.
(b) Make sure he has enough weight in his outfit.
(c) Sneak by them.
(d) Bribe them.
7. Who first found gold in the area?
(a) Nathiel Goodbody.
(b) Paul Rhodes.
(c) Baron von Heitermeister.
(d) Henderson and Carmack.
8. What stuns Abe and Ethan about Jason?
(a) That he came there.
(b) How much he has grown and endured.
(c) That he has Charlie with them.
(d) That he found so much gold.
9. What does Jason decide to do to his brothers?
(a) Play a joke.
(b) Write them a letter.
(c) Scare them.
(d) Demand his inheritance.
10. What does Jason lose as the bear comes out of the den?
(a) His knife.
(b) His gun.
(c) His gloves.
(d) His hat.
11. What does Jason reach at the end of Lake Bennett?
(a) The Straits of Yukon.
(b) The Yukon River.
(c) Fort Klondike.
(d) Lake Thikitucah.
12. What happens at a narrow part of the river?
(a) Jason and Charlie get caught on a snag.
(b) Fish are caught along the shore.
(c) There is a bottleneck of boats.
(d) Fifteen boats tip over.
13. From where is Charlie originally?
(a) Chicago.
(b) Pittsburgh.
(c) Denver.
(d) New York.
14. What does Jason see at a village that he follows?
(a) Bear tracks.
(b) Elk tracks.
(c) Wolf tracks.
(d) Moose tracks.
15. What do the boys do to pass the time?
(a) Paint pictures on the cabin walls.
(b) Play cards.
(c) Read Scientific American.
(d) Write a journal.
Short Answer Questions
1. How many bears come out of the den?
2. How does Jason's dog respond when he asks him to help?
3. What are the merchants on the river selling?
4. In what month does spring thaw arrive where Jason is staying?
5. What is Jason's dog supposed to hate doing?
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