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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 10, September, The Moon When the Birds Fly Away.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. March was not spring yet as Cache Lake was full of ice and there were how many feet of snow?
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 3.

2. Jim, who favored what particular bird types, together with Hank made specific styles of houses to attract those they liked?
(a) Always chickadees and usually cardinals.
(b) Always white doves and usually robins.
(c) Always house wrens and usually bluebirds.
(d) Always hummingbirds and usually swallows.

3. What was recommended about magnetizing needles?
(a) Do small ones north-south, large ones south-north.
(b) Do large ones north-south, small ones south-north.
(c) Always do all of them in the same direction.
(d) Always magnetize but the direction did not matter.

4. When shoes began to chafe, what was suggested as a means to prevent the almost certain accompanying blister?
(a) Cover chafing point with a moist green leaf.
(b) Wear a pair of wool socks over a pair of cotton.
(c) Rub candle wax inside shoe where it chafes.
(d) Rub candle wax on sock where it chafes.

5. Jim tried to do what if a thunderstorm came up when he was on the lake in his canoe?
(a) Remain on the lake, lay in his canoe, and bail when it passed.
(b) Head for the center of the lake, balance himself and cover up.
(c) Head for shore, pull into an open clearing, and stay close to the ground.
(d) Head for shore, pull into heavy cover, and get under it.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jim stored all his "treasured things" in an old chest that he kept where?

2. What was taught as the proper way to land a canoe ashore?

3. Jim described how he made a bread knife from what type of blade?

4. What were the little wooden pipes used to tap sugar maples for sap called?

5. Three blasts on the horn made from that of a buffalo was suggested to signal what?

(see the answer key)

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