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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Joe dry off after his swim?
(a) He rolls around in the forest.
(b) By standing in the breeze.
(c) Wiping himself with grass.
(d) By putting on some dry clothes.

2. Where is the engineer studying?
(a) Russia.
(b) Siberia.
(c) America.
(d) Canada.

3. What raises Zamatev's suspicions that he is being followed?
(a) A secret message in his stack of daily documents.
(b) A little car.
(c) Kyra's nosiness.
(d) Footprints in the snow.

4. What advantage in grooming do most Indians have?
(a) Clean skin.
(b) Not much facial hair.
(c) Straight, easy to manage hair.
(d) Lack of odour.

5. What does Joe decide can wait?
(a) Eating.
(b) Going to the bathroom.
(c) Warmer clothing.
(d) A weapon.

6. Why can the Man On The Other End trust the Baroness?
(a) She is not motivated by money.
(b) She has good intuition.
(c) Her animosity towards her own country.
(d) Her old Soviet ties.

7. What does the soldier count up to before he is allowed to go?
(a) One thousand.
(b) One hundred.
(c) One billion.
(d) One million.

8. Why does Zamatev think Kyra is the best?
(a) She is smart.
(b) She is decended from Russian royalty.
(c) She is the sister of someone important.
(d) She is Shepilov's daughter.

9. Why does Mack think Alekhin will be harder to hide from?
(a) He knows Mack inside out.
(b) He is an Indian.
(c) He is a marine.
(d) He will stop at nothing.

10. What animal dislikes Joe's smell?
(a) A brown bear.
(b) A wild grouse in the trees.
(c) A forest deer.
(d) A salmon in the stream.

11. How far away is Joe when Alekhin visits Vanyushin?
(a) Fifteen miles.
(b) Fifty minutes.
(c) Fifteen minutes.
(d) Fifty miles.

12. What does Joe use to cross Olekma?
(a) A single drift log.
(b) A mass of driftwood.
(c) A lumber plank.
(d) A gigantic old floater.

13. Which berries do little for Joe's hunger?
(a) Ptarmigan berries.
(b) Kinnikinic.
(c) Patridge berries.
(d) Chokecherries.

14. Why is Zhikarev so worried?
(a) Wulff is normally more reserved.
(b) His cabbage soup is too thin.
(c) His feet are feeling better.
(d) The recent batch of furs is poor in quality.

15. What does Mack use to kill the helicopter pilot?
(a) A bow and arrow.
(b) A rifle.
(c) A tomahawk.
(d) A machine gun.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the key to survival?

2. When do the Indian people kill a bear?

3. Why would Joe be expected to make for the Mongolian border?

4. How does a Sioux prefer to die?

5. What does Shepilov not have in Kyra's eyes?

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