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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 trees in the swamps sheltered the deer and moose during the winter?
(a) Yellow pine and oak.
(b) Cedar and oak.
(c) Black spruce and birch.
(d) Cedar and black spruce.

2. How long was a side of bacon hung in the smokehouse?
(a) 12-24 hours.
(b) 6-12 hours.
(c) Several days.
(d) 1 full week.

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

4. It took how many gallons of sap from a maple to yield a good pound of sugar?
(a) 3 to 5.
(b) 1 to 3.
(c) 2 to 4.
(d) 4 to 6.

5. What was described as the best hour a summer day offered?
(a) Dawn.
(b) Noon.
(c) Dusk.
(d) Midnight.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The kerf of a tree was a reference to what?

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

4. In September, the Indians who had arrived for the summer headed where at this time?

5. September days were described as often having been clear and feeling what?

(see the answer key)

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