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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, January, Long Nights and Deep Snows.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Hank arrive at Cache Lake?
(a) By canoe.
(b) By plane.
(c) By foot.
(d) By a dog sled.

2. 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) Wooded mountains, most of them low, with many lakes and streams.
(c) Rolling hills, many of them very high, with sporadic lakes and few streams.
(d) Rolling hills, none of them very high, with many lakes and streams.

3. What birds were seen as they first flew up and struck weed tops, and then settled and fed on seeds that fell in the snow?
(a) Snow buntings.
(b) Snow owls.
(c) Snow geese.
(d) Snowbirds.

4. Jim enjoyed a feeling of danger in which seasonal air?
(a) Hot summer.
(b) Cold autumn.
(c) Cool spring.
(d) Deep winter.

5. What time of year was it when Jim first came upon Cache Lake?
(a) Early March.
(b) Early June.
(c) Early January.
(d) Early September.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the term "cache" mean?

2. What was recommended as the first step in making one's initial pair of moccasins from moose hide?

3. What did Jim relate was the reason it had been difficult to find Chief Tibeash despite his many efforts?

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

5. What mythological figure was January named after that had two faces so he could look ahead and behind simultaneously?

(see the answer key)

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