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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, July, The Moose Are in the Lakes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jim noted he always took along what item on long canoe trips?
(a) A leeboard to reduce drift to the leeward side.
(b) Several extra paddles of different lengths.
(c) A tin of pine sap and tar for repairing holes.
(d) A square of oiled balloon cloth for a sail.

2. After owls have gulped their food down whole and it has digested, what was the next step for bones and fur?
(a) It was excreted in flight like other birds.
(b) It was spit out in neat, rolled pellets.
(c) It was spit out similar to a cat fur ball.
(d) It was spit out as paste to build nests.

3. The Indians in the north country referred to January as Kushapawasticanum o Pesim which meant what?
(a) The Sky of Many Stars.
(b) The Time of Sleeping Bear.
(c) The Lake of No Canoe.
(d) The Moon of Great Cold.

4. What was used as a measuring wheel to construct a rough map?
(a) A barrel hoop set between a sapling's forks.
(b) A wheel barrow minus the tub and rear support legs.
(c) A front wheel and fork of an adult bicycle.
(d) A buggy wheel set between a sapling's forks.

5. Jim always had a spell of what that generally came on without warning toward the end of an April day?
(a) "Firewood felling frenxy."
(b) `"Roof patching party."
(c) "Pet raising raucous."
(d) "Seed-catalogue fever."

Short Answer Questions

1. What Indian game was diagrammed and described that Chief Tibeash was a champion of as a boy, and shot stones and arrows?

2. The millions of birds that traveled faced a big problem in keeping fed, and accounts for why most stayed where relative to the front tide line?

3. Jim made bait rods for fishing from what in February?

4. Jim constructed new furniture during the rainy season in April and provided a diagram to show how he built what?

5. What mythological figure was January named after that had two faces so he could look ahead and behind simultaneously?

(see the answer key)

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