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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. According to details in Chapter 23 "Booze," what can lead to blindness and death?
(a) Bad fish.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Bad Liquor.
(d) Bad water.

2. When did Edwin Simon live in permanent housing with electricity, running water, and appliances?
(a) 1960-1979.
(b) 1945-1967.
(c) 1962-1987.
(d) 1950-1975.

3. In what year did Sidney and Charlie, his dad's partner, go upstream looking for better trapping prospects and find moose tracks?
(a) 1937.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1915.

4. In what year was Sidney 18?
(a) 1942.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1933.

5. The Galena AFB turned this small village of 35 into a city of ____.
(a) 3,000.
(b) 5,000.
(c) 10,000.
(d) 4,000.

6. Whose nickname was "Huslia Hustler" for always winning dog sled races?
(a) Jimmy.
(b) Charlie.
(c) Sidney.
(d) Hog River Johnny.

7. When Sidney taught his kids to hunt, which son killed a bull moose with a bow and arrow?
(a) James.
(b) Gilbert.
(c) Arnold.
(d) Carl.

8. On his month off from service to his government what elder traveled with Sidney on his hunting trip for a "last hunt?"
(a) Chief Paul.
(b) Oldman.
(c) Golchik.
(d) Chief John.

9. In what year was Sidney appointed to the Alaska Board of Fish and Game?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1967.
(d) 1982.

10. Two Eskimos came upon Sidney dressing caribou and advised him to cut off what part of the carcass since wolves subsisted off these long-lasting parts?
(a) Nose.
(b) Heads.
(c) Ears.
(d) Hooves.

11. In what year was Edwin Simon born?
(a) 1921.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1901.
(d) 1898.

12. Sidney's first wife's name was __.
(a) Jenny.
(b) Angela.
(c) Marion.
(d) Celia.

13. What was the name of Sidney's second wife?
(a) Angela.
(b) Celia.
(c) Jenny,
(d) Marion.

14. In Chapter 24 "Galena," who made fur clothes to help support their family?
(a) Angela.
(b) Celia.
(c) Old Mama.
(d) Sophy.

15. The Athapaskan Indians traded everything with the white men they come in contact with except their ___ which were superior.
(a) Weapons.
(b) Clothes.
(c) Food.
(d) Tools.

Short Answer Questions

1. What family business did Sidney have to fight through the bureaucracy to make legal?

2. What did Jimmy and Sidney name the 30 foot boat that they built together as described in Chapter 13 "On Our Own?"

3. Over how many years, after finding the dead moose killed by wolves, were wolves killed to re-balance the wildlife population?

4. In Chapter 18 "Sled Dogs," Sidney described taking his __ year old son Carl trapping.

5. Whose life saving advice about two fires helped Sidney survive overnight in the cold when he got lost while tracking and trapping a marten?

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