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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. In what year did Sidney and Charlie, his dad's partner, go upstream looking for better trapping prospects and find moose tracks?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1935.
(c) 1929.
(d) 1937.

2. Moose hunting became a yearly tradition with Sidney's family, but the moose population began to thin due to wolves in the ___.
(a) 1950s.
(b) 1960s.
(c) 1970s.
(d) 1940s.

3. Sidney killed a moose for which one of his uncles, and this uncle brought his whole family to prepare the meat and the hide over several days?
(a) Chief Paul.
(b) Weasleheart.
(c) Chief Thomas.
(d) Hog River Johnny.

4. What was the name of Weaselheart's wife who helped him kill beaver?
(a) Josie.
(b) Marion.
(c) Ada.
(d) Susie.

5. After his wife died in 1941, Jimmy married ____.
(a) Celia.
(b) Marion.
(c) Flora.
(d) Jenny.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1934 Jimmy married ___.

2. After their dad retired from trapping, at what ages did Jimmy and Sidney go trapping on their own?

3. In what year did Sidney quit drinking?

4. Sidney and his first wife divorced in ___.

5. Who is the Koyukon elder Sidney visited in the hospital who talked about letting the weak and the sick die so only the strong survived?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did tuberculosis affect Sidney's and his uncles' families?

2. According to Chapter 16, "Siwash," what did Sidney do after he got lost while tracking and trapping a marten?

3. What happened when Sidney went to enlist in the army after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941?

4. What happened when Sidney and his dad's partner, Charlie went upstream looking for better trapping prospects in 1929?

5. Why did publishers change the ages of Sidney and his siblings at the time of Anna's death in both Sidney's and Jimmy's autobiographies?

6. What happened when Sidney and Jimmy went beaver hunting in the mid-1930s?

7. How did Sidney describe the killing of passive beavers by his uncle and his uncle's wife?

8. Why did Sidney address the Alaska Board of Education about paying for rural schools in areas with low population?

9. Why was Sidney's dad at the Alaska Pioneer's Home and why did he leave?

10. What happened when Sidney explored the former No Man's Land?

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