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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. What were the little wooden pipes used to tap sugar maples for sap called?
(a) Splits.
(b) Spikes.
(c) Spiles.
(d) Spills.

2. In September, the Indians who had arrived for the summer headed where at this time?
(a) South for warmer weather.
(b) North for trapping grounds.
(c) West for caves.
(d) East for coastal waters.

3. It was noted that when one worked hard in the woods, it brought with it a natural craving for what taste preference?
(a) Bitter.
(b) Salt.
(c) Sour.
(d) Sweet.

4. What was Hank's view of most people when they snapped photographs?
(a) They were too close.
(b) They did not keep sunlight behind them.
(c) They took too few.
(d) They were not close enough.

5. The man who tamed the moose to pull him around came into town on Saturday nights and tied up, then smoked what as people stared?
(a) Cornsilk.
(b) Cigars.
(c) Pipe tobacco.
(d) Cigarettes.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Indians built canoes of birch bark, they sealed the seams with a pitch made from what?

3. How long was a side of bacon hung in the smokehouse?

4. June brought with it the first of the Cree families for the summer that came by birch canoe to settle in where?

5. A harness of what type hide was made for Tripper to get him adjusted to pulling a sled by initially pulling a dead spruce piece?

(see the answer key)

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