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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, March, Strong Winds in the Sugar Bush.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What was suggested as the first step to dry moccasins?
(a) Place them near the stove.
(b) Rub them with moose fat.
(c) Stuff them with bent birch twigs.
(d) Scrape out the moisture.

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

3. Jim recommended which tool as the most valuable in the woods?
(a) Your knife.
(b) Your compass.
(c) Your axe.
(d) Your gun.

4. Jim recalled one Thanksgiving he shared with Chief Tibeash and Hank where what was the only thing wrong?
(a) It was a week early.
(b) It was two weeks late.
(c) It was two weeks early.
(d) It was a month late.

5. The Cache Lake country was a land of what type of terrain?
(a) Rocky mountains, most of them low, with sporadic lakes and streams.
(b) Rolling hills, many of them very high, with sporadic lakes and few streams.
(c) Rolling hills, none of them very high, with many lakes and streams.
(d) Wooded mountains, most of them low, with many lakes and streams.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. What time of year was it when Jim first came upon Cache Lake?

3. Wolves were heard at Cache Lake in February, but not as much as at what other location?

4. What did the term "cache" mean?

5. The Indians in the north country referred to January as Kushapawasticanum o Pesim which meant what?

(see the answer key)

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