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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dick make a snow shovel out of before the freeze-up?
(a) Part of a tin chimney.
(b) Animal skin and a spruce branch.
(c) Coffee cans.
(d) Oil drum.

2. What does the possibility of a visit from the mission girls keep Dick occupied with?
(a) Picking cranberries.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Making more chairs.
(d) Laundry, dusting, and keeping things in order.

3. What does Dick see when he is writing letters in his new cabin in "The Birth of a Cabin"?
(a) Spike's airplane.
(b) Hunters.
(c) Big brown bear.
(d) Herd of caribou.

4. What is the name of the creek where Dick goes fishing after he gets settled in Spike's cabin?
(a) Little Creek.
(b) Winding Creek.
(c) Hope Creek.
(d) Stillwater Creek.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What kind of plane does Babe use to fly Dick into the wilderness?

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

4. What item does Dick find at the hunters' tent camp that is useful to him?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Dick concoct so he can see the animals who come to eat the moose meat he has attached to his sled?

2. What animals does Dick see through his binoculars on his first evening at Twin Lake?

3. What makes Dick happy about the door handle of the cache he built?

4. What do Spike and Hope Carrithers lend to Dick that inspires his wilderness adventure?

5. How does Dick try to help the caribou calf that is separated from its mother?

6. Describe the jack rabbit Dick sees outside his cabin on May 6th.

7. Describe Dick's first morning in Spike's cabin.

8. What is Operation Sheep Meat?

9. Describe what happens when Dick sets his roof on fire.

10. Why does Dick make a gift for Mary?

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