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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. Where was the Indian from that told Sidney a story about how storyteller's dad and partner tracked and killed some strangers?
(a) Nulato.
(b) Anchorage.
(c) Kateel.
(d) Cutoff.

2. How many moose killed by wolves were found in 1956 with the meat barely touched?
(a) 8.
(b) 12.
(c) 10.
(d) 15.

3. On the Fourth of July who surprisingly won the local canoe race?
(a) Homer.
(b) Ezra.
(c) Sidney.
(d) Jimmy.

4. Sidney and his first wife divorced in ___.
(a) 1958.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1944.
(d) 1935.

5. Sidney met his first wife at ____.
(a) Cutoff.
(b) Tanana.
(c) Koyukuk Station.
(d) Nenana.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1939 Sidney and Jimmy built a ___ foot boat.

2. In what year did Sidney have heart trouble and a triple bypass?

3. How many wolves were killed during the re-balancing process described by Sidney in Chapter 22 "Koyukuk Wolves?"

4. 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?

5. Who trained the best sled dogs, all one quarter wolf?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Sidney address the Alaska Board of Education about paying for rural schools in areas with low population?

2. Who was Ben Derrick?

3. What happened when Sidney explored the former No Man's Land?

4. What happened when Sidney went to enlist in the army after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941?

5. What happened in the story Golchik told Sidney about spearing a grizzly bear?

6. What did Sidney do when he learned an instrument?

7. How did tuberculosis affect Sidney's and his uncles' families?

8. Why did publishers change the ages of Sidney and his siblings at the time of Anna's death in both Sidney's and Jimmy's autobiographies?

9. What happened with Sidney and alcohol?

10. In 1937 what happened after Sidney killed a moose for his uncle Hog River Johnny?

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