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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Camp Meat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dick do in the last four days in May in "The Birth of a Cabin"?
(a) Hikes twenty miles a day.
(b) Goes back to Kodiak Lake.
(c) Lays logs for his cabin.
(d) Travels to see Babe.

2. How heavy is Dick's second load of cargo that he hauls to Spike's cabin?
(a) Sixty pounds.
(b) Ninety pounds.
(c) Twenty pounds.
(d) Twelve pounds.

3. What does Dick nickname the "camp robber"?
(a) Squirrel.
(b) Gray jay.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Bear.

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

5. What does Dick use to make a wash bucket, wash pan, and flour and storage cans before he moves out of Spike's cabin?
(a) Old water containers.
(b) Empty plastic buckets.
(c) Empty gas can.
(d) Recycled waste baskets.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the weather like in mid-September when Dick is building his fireplace?

2. What kind of sandwiches did Mary Alsworth pack for Dick that he ate his first night in the wilderness?

3. What year did Sam meet Dick?

4. What does The Chugach Range remind Dick of?

5. Where does Dick haul the rocks from to construct the fireplace?

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