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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where do some of the birds spend winter nights?

2. What was Sam about to serve to eat when he heard his dad?

3. When does Sam's dad leave the mountain?

4. What did Sam decide to use to make a fireplace for his home?

5. What type of berries did Sam eat while he worked on the deer he found during the hunting season?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sam make a deer hide jacket?

2. At the end of the first week of hunting season, how close did Sam get to a hunter?

3. How did Sam and Frightful like the crickets in the meadow in "The Autumn Provides Food and Loneliness"?

4. How did Frightful help Sam gather nuts?

5. How is Sam described by Mrs. Fielder in an article written about a wild boy in the mountains?

6. How are the chickadees like people that Sam knew on Third Avenue in New York?

7. How does Sam's dad react when he first sees Frightful?

8. What was different about the Baron on October 15?

9. What does Sam say is the nicest part of his day in "I Have a Good Look at Winter and Find Spring in the Snow"?

10. How does Bando serve Sam's dad after the first course of onion soup?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sam was lonely at times. How did Sam deal with his loneliness?

Essay Topic 2

Sam found clever ways to get things done. How did Sam use ingenuity when he had a problem he needed to solve?

Essay Topic 3

Sam's father said that Gribley's weren't made to live on the land. Why didn't Sam's father think that Sam could make it living off the land?

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