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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Nancy take Tom?
(a) To a play.
(b) To her house.
(c) To a cave.
(d) Swimming.

2. What brought 295 Minnesotans to Matanuska in 1935?
(a) The excitement of fishing for salmon.
(b) The opening of a school.
(c) The thrill of seeking gold.
(d) A government program during the Great Depression.

3. Whose war ships were spotted near the Aleutians in June of 1942?
(a) Canada's.
(b) America's.
(c) Russia's.
(d) Japan's.

4. Where did Tom move after Christmas?
(a) Seattle
(b) Nome
(c) Pleiades Glacier
(d) Ketchikan

5. The Venns helped rescue survivors of _________.
(a) Cholera.
(b) An avalanche.
(c) A tidal wave.
(d) A massive snowstorm.

6. What did George Washington Carmack find in the Yukon in 1896?
(a) Gold.
(b) Silver.
(c) Oil.
(d) Platinum.

7. Why did the warships withdraw?
(a) They learned about the significant number of planes.
(b) They saw all the soldiers.
(c) They were running low on food and fuel.
(d) The weather was too cold.

8. What did Shaffer say they had to build?
(a) A larger business.
(b) A bigger boat.
(c) Their own airplane.
(d) A road across Canada.

9. What is cabotage?
(a) When a ship had too many vegetables so they rotted.
(b) When a ship lacked a good supply of vegetables.
(c) When a ship delivered too much cargo at a port.
(d) When a ship that delivered to a port could not take on cargo and passengers.

10. What did the Venn's use for transportation to Venn's Lode?
(a) A car.
(b) A horse.
(c) A plane.
(d) A boat.

11. How did Elmer Flatch contribute to the war effort?
(a) Building highways.
(b) Navy.
(c) Foot soldier.
(d) Aviation.

12. What frequently happened in the hospital tent?
(a) Political debates.
(b) The patients received excellent care.
(c) Patients became more ill, not better.
(d) The men were robbed.

13. Where did Tom Venn open a Ross and Raglan store in 1902?
(a) Klondike.
(b) Juneau.
(c) Yucutan.
(d) Nome.

14. What happened to Arikov's claim?
(a) It was dry.
(b) He struck the motherload.
(c) It was too difficult to work.
(d) He lost it.

15. Where did Tom and his mother live at Lake Bennett?
(a) In a castle.
(b) In a cabin.
(c) In a boarding house.
(d) In a tent city.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Tom and his mother do in Dawson City?

2. What was Judge Grant like?

3. Why did Ross decide to get rid of the workers?

4. How was Elmer injured?

5. Who came to check out the cannery?

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