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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dick use to make a wash bucket, wash pan, and flour and storage cans before he moves out of Spike's cabin?
(a) Recycled waste baskets.
(b) Old water containers.
(c) Empty gas can.
(d) Empty plastic buckets.

2. What do Spike and Hope Carrithers lend to Dick?
(a) Cabin and canoe.
(b) Television.
(c) Money.
(d) Jet ski.

3. In June, how fast do the ice chunks move on the lake?
(a) Fifty feet a minute.
(b) Two feet every 30 seconds.
(c) Twelve feet a minute.
(d) One hundred feet a minute.

4. What month is it when Dick meets Babe in Anchorage?
(a) October.
(b) March.
(c) May.
(d) August.

5. How does Dick divide up his cargo to haul to Spike's cabin in the Twins?
(a) Alphabetically.
(b) By category.
(c) Haphazardly.
(d) By weight and importance.

6. What does Dick use to test the draft in his new fireplace?
(a) Match.
(b) Cigar.
(c) Burning log.
(d) Fireweed seeds.

7. What does Dick build in May that he is very satisfied with?
(a) Furniture.
(b) Cache.
(c) Boat.
(d) Hammock.

8. What does The Chugach Range remind Dick of?
(a) Camper trip from Nebraska.
(b) Pictures from his youth.
(c) A great steeple.
(d) Hiking through the Appalachian moutains.

9. What does Dick feed the birds and squirrels for Thanksgiving dinner?
(a) Sunflower seeds.
(b) Suet and meat dust.
(c) Bird seed.
(d) Dried corn.

10. What did the jar have in it that Dick opened when he got to Spike's cabin the first evening he arrives?
(a) Green beans.
(b) Tomatoes.
(c) Blueberries.
(d) Peaches.

11. What is the spruce squirrel using for a door in "Freeze-up"?
(a) Spruce branches.
(b) Cement sack.
(c) Moss ball.
(d) Tree shavings.

12. What is the temperature on Thanksgiving day?
(a) Ten degrees.
(b) Minus four degrees.
(c) Two degrees.
(d) Twenty-two degrees.

13. To prepare for freeze-up, what does Dick build out of spruce poles?
(a) Sled.
(b) Ice-skating rink.
(c) Snowshoes.
(d) Warming hut.

14. When does Dick plan to start a garden?
(a) Early July.
(b) September.
(c) June.
(d) Late May.

15. What kind of hotcakes does Dick make for his first breakfast in the wilderness?
(a) Buttermilk.
(b) Sourdough.
(c) Cinnamon.
(d) Honey.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who says "We are not piling up treasures on this earth?"

2. What does Dick mean when he says "That's living in the wilderness first class."

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

4. What does Babe bring Dick when he flies in on May 8th?

5. What words does Dick write with spruce boughs on the frozen ice for Babe to see?

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