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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, October, Frost on Scarlet Leaves.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jim noted the distance from his cabin to Faraway See Hill, where he and Chief Tibeash looked over the fall colors annually, was what?
(a) 5 miles straightaway, 8 by trail.
(b) 4 miles straightaway, 7 by trail.
(c) 3 miles straightaway, 6 by trail.
(d) 2 miles straightaway, 5 by trail.

2. Jim always had a spell of what that generally came on without warning toward the end of an April day?
(a) "Firewood felling frenxy."
(b) "Pet raising raucous."
(c) "Seed-catalogue fever."
(d) `"Roof patching party."

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

4. What were the woods described as having been like in July?
(a) Dry, cool, and quiet.
(b) Dry, hot, and noisy.
(c) Dry, hot, and quiet.
(d) Wet, hot, and quiet.

5. How was a mattress that was ordered from a catalog transported to Cache Lake?
(a) Stretched centered and lashed atop the wings of a pontoon plane.
(b) Lashed like a horseshoe over the back of a pack mule.
(c) Rolled tightly inside a pontoon plane cabin.
(d) Rolled tightly around a long pole that rested on two men's shoulders.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was dynamite used to break up a log jam?

2. What did the term "cache" mean?

3. Why was it recommended to leave one's rifle outside the camp in freezing weather instead of bringing it in where it was warm?

4. Chief Tibeash dried fish in the sun, removed the gills and eyes, then wrapped them well separated in dry moss to keep them for how long?

5. It was noted that logging was not what it was 40 years ago when, a time when what were used?

(see the answer key)

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