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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who flew Sidney's pregnant wife to the hospital after the dog sled accident?

2. How did Weaselheart kill passive beavers with his wife's help?

3. Two Eskimos came upon Sidney dressing caribou and advised him to cut off what part of the carcass since wolves subsisted off these long-lasting parts?

4. Which one of Sidney's sisters is mentioned in Chapter 23 "Booze" as dying from tuberculosis?

5. In what year did Sidney's dad quit trapping and get a job as a jail guard?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

5. Who is Edwin Simon?

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

7. What did Sidney do when he learned an instrument?

8. 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?

9. What happened in the story Golchik told Sidney about spearing a grizzly bear?

10. After Donald Stickman found 12 moose killed by wolves, how was the wolf population "controlled?"

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What was Prohibition? How did Prohibition affect rural Alaska? How did it affect Sidney and Jimmy? What are some of the effects of bad liquor? Of alcohol abuse? How was Sidney's life impacted by his alcohol abuse? Why and when did Sidney stop drinking?

Essay Topic 2

Sidney talks about three Charlies in the book: Charlie Swanson, Charlie Irish, and Charlie Evans. Explain where each Charlie first comes into Sidney's life, what impact each has on Sidney's life and why, and then consider how Sidney's life might have been different without contact with each Charlie.

Essay Topic 3

A flood takes away all of the family's possession in 1928. What caused the flood? How did the family escape? Why did they lose everything? How did they recover before winter? Who helped the family recover so they had all they needed before winter?

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