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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, February, The Stars and the Silence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jim had observed too many woodsmen suffering from what, to know that one could not abuse one's stomach without paying a price?
(a) "Storming in the stomach."
(b) "Misery in the innards."
(c) "Bursting in the belly."
(d) "Gale in the gut."

2. Along the edge of Cache Lake to the south grew alder side by side with fish-net willows and what else?
(a) Wild strawberries.
(b) High bush cranberries.
(c) High bush blueberries.
(d) Low vine raspberries.

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

4. Jim enjoyed a feeling of danger in which seasonal air?
(a) Hot summer.
(b) Deep winter.
(c) Cold autumn.
(d) Cool spring.

5. Jim's memories of his grandmother having read to him as a youngster from "Swiss Family Robinson" were always stirred by what?
(a) The breeze when it stirred the trees.
(b) His whistling kettle when he boiled water.
(c) The rain when it dropped on his tin roof.
(d) The creaking of his chair when he rocked in it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was the term used when the early morning mist that hung over the lake was referred to?

2. Indians in the north country believed what had a spirit?

3. What was described as a good way to store fish in the winter?

4. Without a heavy pack, what was listed as the average speed one could hike on a good trail?

5. What were snow goggles?

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