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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 15, The Old Koyukon Ways and Chapter 16, Siwash.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Anticipating the depression, Sidney and his dad traveled to the town of Tanana, population ____, to sell off furs while the prices were high.
(a) 35.
(b) 600.
(c) 125.
(d) 400.

2. At the Anvik Mission Sidney became friends with orphans Homer and ___ Collins.
(a) Ezra.
(b) Victor.
(c) Cosmos.
(d) Ned.

3. After their dad retired from trapping, at what ages did Jimmy and Sidney go trapping on their own?
(a) 15 and 16.
(b) 16 and 17.
(c) 13 and 16.
(d) 14 and 16.

4. What did the court give Anna for her very long walk home?
(a) Food vouchers.
(b) Release papers.
(c) A travel visa.
(d) A note.

5. Sidney and Jimmy traveled back home from school on a steamboat with ___.
(a) Ada.
(b) Alice.
(c) Susie.
(d) Marion.

Short Answer Questions

1. "Siwashing out" means living off the land without what?

2. Anna walked more than ___ miles through the tundra back home after her step-father's murder trial.

3. What tool was Dad reluctant to let Jimmy use while helping to build Sidney's boat?

4. Before her death, the Collins' mom was to have married the ___.

5. In Chapter 9, "Deep Cold," Sidney's family was still at the Batza River and the subfreezing temperature was below ___, which made groundwater hazardous.

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