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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. Who helped Sidney and his dad harvest the family potato garden?
(a) Eklutna John.
(b) Weaselheart.
(c) Charlie Swanson.
(d) John Evans.

2. It was ___ degrees when Sidney returned from checking his traps in sub-freezing temperatures at the Batza River.
(a) -60.
(b) -75.
(c) -78.
(d) -58.

3. As Sidney and his family traveled toward Batza River, they stayed overnight with Sidney's Aunt Eliza and she made them mittens and ___.
(a) Hats.
(b) Scarves.
(c) Mocassins.
(d) Coats.

4. Who insisted that Sidney had earned to right to a woman with his bear kill?
(a) Hog River Johnny.
(b) Ned Regan.
(c) Chief Paul.
(d) Little Sammy.

5. After Sidney had snared and killed the bear that raided the family's fish stores, they got a visit from his Aunt ___.
(a) Alice.
(b) Ada.
(c) Sophy.
(d) Susie.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the family's most important possessions was a thermometer accurate to ___ degrees.

2. On the riverboat to Alatna, Sidney and his dad visited whose grave?

3. Homer and Sidney became good friends but this ended when Homer died in ___.

4. When did Anna marry Victor Bifelt?

5. After his escape, James returned home to New York to visit whom?

Short Essay Questions

1. Sidney heard rifle shots when he was 12. Why were the Nulato firing these shots?

2. What happened in Chapter 3, "Three Babes," after Anna took her three youngest children hunting and fishing?

3. How did Joe Stickman help Sidney's family after the flood?

4. Who helped Sidney build his boat and when was the boat completed, according to Chapter 10, "My First Boat?"

5. What relationship did Homer and Sidney have, and why did it end?

6. What happened when the Koyukuk River ice started to break up mid-May in 1928?

7. How did the steamboat passengers help reunite Sidney and his siblings with their dad after Anna died?

8. According to Chapter 8, "The Batza River Trapline," how did Sidney and Jimmy help the family prepare for winter?

9. How did Sidney's family escape the flood after they realized it would rise higher than they originally anticipated?

10. While in Alatna what did Sidney study at school?

(see the answer keys)

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