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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On the last day Dick is in the wilderness, what is the weather like?
(a) Hot and dry.
(b) Clear, calm, and thirty-two degrees.
(c) Rough and stormy.
(d) Snowing.

2. What does Dick say about the gleam of his cabin when he returns from the Chilikadrotna River?
(a) It is too bright.
(b) Puzzled because he thought he turned off the lights.
(c) It makes him feel homesick for his father's house.
(d) It is a comfort.

3. What bothers Dick in the natural world as he paddles across the lake on July 2nd?
(a) Bugs.
(b) Beaver.
(c) Fish.
(d) Snakes.

4. What noises does Dick hear the red runt make in "Red Runt"?
(a) Squealing.
(b) Yipping.
(c) Chatter.
(d) Chirping.

5. What does Dick say in "Reflections" that he cannot help but think about as he lives in the wilderness?
(a) Getting a roommate.
(b) Having his whole family come for a visit.
(c) Getting sick or hurt.
(d) Feeling homesick.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal does Dick see through his binoculars after he has investigated what the magpies are calling about while exploring the Chilikadrotna River?

2. What does Dick say about what other people might consider him as he reflects on his wilderness experience?

3. How does the red runt get into Dick's cache?

4. What does the red runt do to Dick when he offers it food?

5. What does Dick say about how Indians of the past built their rafts?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the weather like on the day Dick stores his things in the cache?

2. Does Dick feel happy to be back at his cabin after exploring the Chilikadrotna River?

3. What does Dick remind himself of when he worries about getting sick or falling in a rock slide?

4. Why does Dick intend to leave his cabin for the winter?

5. Why does Dick describe himself as an oddball?

6. What is Dick's opinion about food and physical exercise?

7. Does the red runt like to scatter Dick's food?

8. What happens to Dick when he leaves the wilderness for the first time?

9. What does Dick see when standing on Eagle's Back?

10. How does Dick describe the sound of the Chilikadrotna River?

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