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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Jason pick to eat to prevent scurvy?
(a) Mushrooms.
(b) Rose hips and fruit.
(c) Mountain laurel.
(d) Potatoes.

2. What stuns Abe and Ethan about Jason?
(a) How much he has grown and endured.
(b) That he came there.
(c) That he found so much gold.
(d) That he has Charlie with them.

3. What breaks twice as Jason and Charlie are watching the river?
(a) The dam.
(b) Nothing.
(c) The weather.
(d) The rocks on the river.

4. What job does Charlie take with Jason's brothers?
(a) Salesman.
(b) Assistant bookkeeper.
(c) He does not take a job with them.
(d) Designer.

5. Why are the bull moose fighting?
(a) There are too many males.
(b) It is rutting season.
(c) There are too many females.
(d) There is not enough food.

6. How does the crowd feel when the person in question #113 makes it through the rapids?
(a) Jealous.
(b) Angry.
(c) Awed.
(d) Curious.

7. What does Jason find Charlie has done when he returns to the cabin?
(a) Let the fire go out.
(b) Burned all the magazines.
(c) Pulled the down quit apart.
(d) Broken the table.

8. What does Jason decide he must do about the Mounties?
(a) Develop a plan.
(b) Sneak by them.
(c) Make sure he has enough weight in his outfit.
(d) Bribe them.

9. What does Jack tell Jason he wants to be?
(a) A journalist.
(b) An editor.
(c) A publisher.
(d) A writer.

10. What does the man who helps Jason with his caribou say about the Mounties and August?
(a) They are not stopping people right now.
(b) They are letting no one through.
(c) They are more lenient in August.
(d) They are being fairly relaxed about the rules.

11. Why is Jack looking poorly?
(a) He broke his leg and it is infected.
(b) He contracted scruvy.
(c) He has TB.
(d) He did not find any gold.

12. Why do Abe and Ethan come out of their office?
(a) To go to lunch.
(b) To go home for the day.
(c) To meet Jason thinking he is someone else.
(d) To reprimand a worker.

13. What does Jason see for the first time?
(a) The northern lights.
(b) A grizzly bear.
(c) Herds of deer.
(d) A polar bear.

14. Who is performing at the theater where Jason's brothers take him?
(a) Jamie.
(b) Homer.
(c) Jack London.
(d) Frank Barker.

15. What are the merchants on the river selling?
(a) Maps to the gold.
(b) There are no merchants on the river.
(c) Milk and livestock and fruit.
(d) Clothes.

Short Answer Questions

1. What sign does Charlie point out to Jason?

2. What are some of the people on the river called?

3. What does Charlie tell Jason about how he feels?

4. In what month does spring thaw arrive where Jason is staying?

5. How many bears come out of the den?

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