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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Birth of a Cabin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What kind of plane does Babe use to fly Dick into the wilderness?
(a) Handley Page.
(b) Swift.
(c) Champion.
(d) Taylorcraft.

2. What does Dick say a person living alone has to do in "The Birth of a Cabin"?
(a) Read books.
(b) Get things down to a system.
(c) Sing.
(d) Write a lot of letters.

3. What does The Chugach Range remind Dick of?
(a) Camper trip from Nebraska.
(b) A great steeple.
(c) Pictures from his youth.
(d) Hiking through the Appalachian moutains.

4. What year did Sam meet Dick?
(a) 1979.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1952.
(d) 2004.

5. What is the setting of Dick's wilderness experience?
(a) Washington state.
(b) Iowa.
(c) Alaska.
(d) British Columbia.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of hotcakes does Dick make for his first breakfast in the wilderness?

2. What does Dick nickname the "camp robber"?

3. What does Dick build the first week of June?

4. What does Dick leave behind at the Carrithers home when he flies to Anchorage?

5. What do Spike and Hope Carrithers lend to Dick?

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