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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. What did Jim relate was the reason it had been difficult to find Chief Tibeash despite his many efforts?
(a) The north country was very rugged and heavily wooded.
(b) The north country was a sparsely populated area.
(c) Indians did not leave forwarding addresses.
(d) Chief Tibeash had moved away for a time.

2. 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) The rain when it dropped on his tin roof.
(c) The creaking of his chair when he rocked in it.
(d) His whistling kettle when he boiled water.

3. What mythological figure was January named after that had two faces so he could look ahead and behind simultaneously?
(a) Janes.
(b) Julian.
(c) Junos.
(d) Janus.

4. The Indian paddle stroke Chief Tibeash used was short, began at the waist, and ended with a thrust from what point?
(a) The cross arm.
(b) The shoulders.
(c) The wrists.
(d) The biceps.

5. Jim recalled one Thanksgiving he shared with Chief Tibeash and Hank where what was the only thing wrong?
(a) It was two weeks late.
(b) It was a week early.
(c) It was a month late.
(d) It was two weeks early.

Short Answer Questions

1. What birds were seen as they first flew up and struck weed tops, and then settled and fed on seeds that fell in the snow?

2. Along the edge of Cache Lake to the south grew alder side by side with fish-net willows and what else?

3. The remedy offered for metal that got so cold that it chipped was to heat it until it was dull red before it was plunged into what?

4. What were snow goggles?

5. Jim enjoyed a feeling of danger in which seasonal air?

(see the answer key)

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