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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9 through 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What argument do Jim and Jonnie have about the cabin?
(a) Jim believes Jonnie should use pine for the cabin instead of cedar.
(b) Jim and Jonnie disagree about where the cabin should be located.
(c) Jim doesn't like the idea of a cabin because it ties the family down to one place.
(d) Jim is working on a longhouse for the family to live in, but Jonnie wants him to help with the cabin.

2. Why do Mr. Rutledge, Jim and Jonnie quit working at the beginning of chapter nine?
(a) Tom Rivers has come.
(b) The land surveyor has come.
(c) Joe Meek has come.
(d) Sam Mullins has come.

3. How does Jim practice signing his name?
(a) He asks Daniel to help him practice.
(b) He has Daniel write his name on a piece of bark and uses that to practice.
(c) He finds where Daniel has written his name on some paper and uses that to practice.
(d) He makes Daniel write his name over and over until he memorizes how to write it.

4. How does Sally use a picture of Jim and Jonnie?
(a) She tries to get Jim to work harder.
(b) She tries to get Jim to be nicer to Jonnie.
(c) She tries to make Jim tell her about his childhood.
(d) She tries to get Jim to cut his hair.

5. Which one of these is a disturbing memory that Jim has about the Indians?
(a) A woman who kills her child.
(b) The Indians stealing from each other.
(c) His Indian mother beating him.
(d) A man who with a necklace of scalps.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is one way that Jim shows off for Daniel at the reunion?

2. What is one aspect of Jim's character or appearance about which Jonnie and Sally agree?

3. What does the group have to do to the wagons before crossing the river?

4. Why does Jim take the letter from the man whom he paid to read it?

5. How does Jim view the task of curing meat?

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