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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to details in Chapter 23 "Booze," what can lead to blindness and death?

2. Who flew Sidney's pregnant wife to the hospital after the dog sled accident?

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

4. Sidney and his first wife divorced in ___.

5. Sidney learned an instrument and made himself a guitar and ___.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What happened when Sidney's dad dug for gold at Bear Creek?

5. After Donald Stickman found 12 moose killed by wolves, how was the wolf population "controlled?"

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

7. Who was Ben Derrick?

8. How did Sidney describe the killing of passive beavers by his uncle and his uncle's wife?

9. Why was Sidney's dad at the Alaska Pioneer's Home and why did he leave?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How does Sidney learn to become a carpenter and end up doing work in Galena? During this time the family builds a salmon fishing business and then a salmon smokehouse. How does each business come about and why does Sidney sell the fishing business at some point?

Essay Topic 2

What was Prohibition? How did Prohibition affect rural Alaska? How did it affect Sidney and Jimmy? What are some of the effects of bad liquor? Of alcohol abuse? How was Sidney's life impacted by his alcohol abuse? Why and when did Sidney stop drinking?

Essay Topic 3

Sidney learns about spear hunting grizzly bears. How does he learn about this method? What is involved in this method? Also, explain how Sidney catches a grizzly using a snare and why he did it?

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