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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, October, Frost on Scarlet Leaves.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Three blasts on the horn made from that of a buffalo was suggested to signal what?
(a) Time to get up.
(b) Meet to fish on my lake.
(c) Help was needed.
(d) Pie was ready.

2. Mal de raquette was another term for what?
(a) Frostbite of the foot.
(b) Sprained ankle.
(c) Snowshoe lameness.
(d) Snow ski pain.

3. March was the start of the transition into the spring season, one sign of which was what?
(a) Deciduous trees began to shed leaves to make way for new buds.
(b) Red squirrels that chattered from the maple tops.
(c) Stormy weather that came in like a lamb and went out as a lion.
(d) First geese as they began to fly north.

4. In Chapter 5, Jim knew it would not be long after the ice broke up that what would happen?
(a) Beavers would begin working.
(b) The geese would return.
(c) Lily pads would sprout.
(d) The ducks would return.

5. Great horned mother owls have nested in late February with the young beneath the mother's wings and covered in what color fuzz?
(a) Pink.
(b) Snow white.
(c) Brown.
(d) Cream.

Short Answer Questions

1. The kerf of a tree was a reference to what?

2. Jim noted that he generally cached his small canoe where?

3. September days were described as often having been clear and feeling what?

4. Jim noted many changes in the ways the Indians lived during the 30 years he had known them, except that most still did what?

5. What was suggested as one way of getting ahead when one worked through new wood?

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