View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Camp Meat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dick say a person living alone has to do in "The Birth of a Cabin"?
(a) Write a lot of letters.
(b) Get things down to a system.
(c) Read books.
(d) Sing.

2. To write this book, what does Sam Keith use of Dick Proenneke's?
(a) Newspaper articles.
(b) Books.
(c) Journals.
(d) Magazine essays.

3. What year did Sam meet Dick?
(a) 2004.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1952.
(d) 1979.

4. What does Dick do in the last four days in May in "The Birth of a Cabin"?
(a) Hikes twenty miles a day.
(b) Travels to see Babe.
(c) Goes back to Kodiak Lake.
(d) Lays logs for his cabin.

5. What wildlife does Dick see that makes him anxious to begin the fireplace project?
(a) Bears.
(b) Rams.
(c) Caribou.
(d) Geese.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dick leave behind at the Carrithers home when he flies to Anchorage?

2. What does Dick see when he is writing letters in his new cabin in "The Birth of a Cabin"?

3. What does the Boss Hunter do before he leaves his cabin for the winter?

4. What is Dick waiting for from Babe Alsworth when he is in Kodiak?

5. What is the setting of Dick's wilderness experience?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 225 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample