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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. What happened to their business?
(a) It was destroyed in a fire.
(b) It was very successful.
(c) No-one wanted to work with them.
(d) They ran out of supplies.

2. What did LeRoy buy with the money Matt Murphy left him?
(a) An old Cessna airplane.
(b) A store.
(c) A ship.
(d) Food.

3. What brought more people to Alaska in 1973?
(a) Gold.
(b) Educational opportunities.
(c) Hunting opportunities.
(d) The pipeline project.

4. Alaska became what state of the union?
(a) 50th.
(b) 49th.
(c) 25th.
(d) 13th.

5. What happened to the Montreal Queen?
(a) It brought more business.
(b) It was crushed by a tidal wave.
(c) It was gunned down.
(d) It sank in a storm.

Short Answer Questions

1. What city was proposed as a new capital of Alaska?

2. Where did Nancy take Tom?

3. Where did Missy work?

4. What did the lobbyist favor?

5. What did the professors think about the trapping equipment which they had designed?

Short Essay Questions

1. What dilemma did Tom face regarding workers?

2. What was the effect of automation on the workers?

3. How did Matt Murphy make his living when he arrived in Nome?

4. What was Tom's romantic situation like in the latter part of Chapter 10?

5. In Chapter 9, what problem did people have with their claims?

6. How was discrimination shown to the natives?

7. How did the Flatch family contribute to the war effort?

8. Describe what cabotage is.

9. How were native Alaskans treated by the United States government?

10. How did the discovery of oil change the area in Chapter 12?

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