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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which one of Sidney's sisters is mentioned in Chapter 23 "Booze" as dying from tuberculosis?
(a) Ada.
(b) Marion.
(c) Alice.
(d) Susie.

2. In 1934 Sidney's dad went to the Alaska Pioneer Home in ___ because of failing health.
(a) Cutoff.
(b) Kateel.
(c) Sitka.
(d) Nutalo.

3. Sidney killed a moose for which one of his uncles, and this uncle brought his whole family to prepare the meat and the hide over several days?
(a) Weasleheart.
(b) Chief Paul.
(c) Hog River Johnny.
(d) Chief Thomas.

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

5. Jimmy died in _____.
(a) 1984
(b) 1983
(c) 1987
(d) 1985

6. In Chapter 18 "Sled Dogs," Sidney described taking his __ year old son Carl trapping.
(a) 4.
(b) 5.
(c) 8.
(d) 6.

7. Who is the Koyukon elder Sidney visited in the hospital who talked about letting the weak and the sick die so only the strong survived?
(a) Old Mama.
(b) His dad.
(c) Johnny Oldman.
(d) Vhief Paul.

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

9. What did Sidney do with the green branches that he dried in one fire after he built a second fire, when he had to stay outside overnight in the cold?
(a) Used them as fuel for a second fire.
(b) Used them to feed the first fire.
(c) Made a covering to sleep under.
(d) Made a bed on the ground.

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

11. Who threw a stick at a moose and the moose charged?
(a) Jimmy.
(b) Hog River Johnny.
(c) sidney.
(d) Weasleheart.

12. Sidney's eye was replaced with a glass eye after he injured it while doing what?
(a) Chopping Wood.
(b) Driving a dog sled.
(c) Reparing an engine.
(d) Fixing a trap.

13. According to Sidney, when did Edwin Simon experience and use things like motorboats, oil, gas and buying food at trading posts?
(a) 1960-1979.
(b) 1915-1940.
(c) 1930-1960.
(d) 1900-1925.

14. 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) Hooves.
(b) Nose.
(c) Ears.
(d) Heads.

15. In ___ Sidney went to work for a mining company, drilling at his dad's former claim.
(a) 1932.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1937.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose fourteen kids died of tuberculosis?

3. Who told Sidney about evidence of strangers and how the storyteller's dad and another tracked and killed the strangers?

4. What was the name of Weaselheart's wife who helped him kill beaver?

5. On the way to ___ Sidney and his pregnant wife had a sledding accident and she was flown to the hospital.

(see the answer keys)

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