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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dick use beach gravel for?
(a) Decoration outside Spike's cabin.
(b) To fill his empty gas cans to use as weights.
(c) For his garden paths.
(d) Foundation of cabin.

2. What does Dick make from the high-bush cranberries he picks in "Freeze-up"?
(a) Oatmeal.
(b) Cranberry muffins.
(c) Syrup.
(d) Trail mix.

3. When Babe stops by briefly on September 19th in "Camp Meat", what does he say he will bring Dick soon?
(a) Warm clothing.
(b) Book.
(c) Large package.
(d) Better utensils.

4. What animal takes over the spruce squirrel's home in "Freeze-up"?
(a) Ermine.
(b) Mouse.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Chipmunk.

5. Where did Dick work in the 1940s?
(a) Ilinois.
(b) Minnesota.
(c) Oregon.
(d) Canada.

6. Where does Dick haul the rocks from to construct the fireplace?
(a) Babe delivers them.
(b) Quarry.
(c) Forest.
(d) Beach.

7. On a frosty August morning, what animals does Dick see feeding on a grassy slope above Glacier Creek in "Camp Meat"?
(a) Ducks.
(b) Caribou.
(c) Bears.
(d) Rams.

8. What object does Dick place on the ice to let Babe know it is safe to land the plane on?
(a) Oil drum.
(b) Ram's horns.
(c) Yellow flag.
(d) Red flag.

9. What does Dick wrap around the legs of his cache to dissuade squirrels from climbing up?
(a) Barbed wire.
(b) Twelve inch band of tin.
(c) Spikes.
(d) Flexible traps.

10. What words does Dick write with spruce boughs on the frozen ice for Babe to see?
(a) Land here.
(b) Help.
(c) OK.
(d) Too thin.

11. What does Dick make a snow shovel out of before the freeze-up?
(a) Part of a tin chimney.
(b) Animal skin and a spruce branch.
(c) Coffee cans.
(d) Oil drum.

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

13. What does Dick make out of a baby caribou calfskin in May?
(a) Bandanna.
(b) Hand warmer.
(c) Small cloth for cleaning.
(d) Table decoration.

14. In mid-May, what noise does Dick hear coming down from Craig Mountain?
(a) Trees being felled.
(b) Caribou cow bawling.
(c) Snow avalanche.
(d) Rams fighting.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What weapons does Dick have on this wilderness adventure?

2. What does Dick use a trotline for?

3. What is located 75 feet from the bay and situated on a knolltop?

4. What does Dick call the rabbit he is tracking in early May?

5. What did the jar have in it that Dick opened when he got to Spike's cabin the first evening he arrives?

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