View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Jeb Keeler go to Baflin Island?
(a) He was looking for relatives.
(b) He was visiting a friend.
(c) He was on a hunting trip.
(d) He was checking out factories.

2. What did Venn experience as he managed the Chinese and Filipino workers?
(a) He experienced management problems.
(b) Aside from a few glitches, everyone respected each other, and there was no trouble.
(c) Everything was very smooth.
(d) They had language barrier problems.

3. What was the investigation team studying?
(a) The effects of the cannery and pollution
(b) The effects of the cannery on the salmon population in other places.
(c) The functionality of the new equipment.
(d) The relationships between workers and management.

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

5. What did Malcolm Ross want Tom to build?
(a) A boat.
(b) A salmon cannery.
(c) A factory.
(d) A wagon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Lieutenant Maxim Voronov fly around?

2. When was the Alaskan Code enacted?

3. Where did Kendra and Jeb go with the locals?

4. When was the business operational?

5. Where did Tom Venn open a Ross and Raglan store in 1902?

Short Essay Questions

1. What effect did cabotage have on businesses and individuals?

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

3. How did LeRoy's investment benefit him?

4. Why did the natives feel betrayed?

5. What types of jobs did people have in Chapter 8 thanks to the gold rush?

6. Why did Ah Ting disappear?

7. What dilemma did Tom face regarding workers?

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

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

10. What effect did the gold rush have on Alaska?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 538 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample