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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. Cree Indians viewed the Big Dipper (part of Ursa Major) as the Great Bear constellation, and the three stars in the handle as what?
(a) Beehives.
(b) Hunters.
(c) Cubs.
(d) Paw tracks.

2. What were snow goggles?
(a) Cardboard or soft pinewood goggles with thin slit cuts for vision.
(b) Metallic gray sunglasses treated with ultraviolet radiation.
(c) Blue wraparound glasses treated with ultraviolet radiation.
(d) Goggles with photogray lenses treated with ultraviolet radiation.

3. How long was it from the time Jim initially happened upon Cache Lake until he first returned?
(a) A month.
(b) A week.
(c) A year.
(d) Several years.

4. 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.

5. After owls have gulped their food down whole and it has digested, what was the next step for bones and fur?
(a) It was spit out as paste to build nests.
(b) It was spit out in neat, rolled pellets.
(c) It was spit out similar to a cat fur ball.
(d) It was excreted in flight like other birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. It was noted that when one worked hard in the woods, it brought with it a natural craving for what taste preference?

2. What was related to have been some of the fun when ice fishing?

3. Along the edge of Cache Lake to the south grew alder side by side with fish-net willows and what else?

4. For sleeping in the open during winter, it was stated there was nothing to equal what kind of a robe?

5. Jim made bait rods for fishing from what in February?

(see the answer key)

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