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

2. What did the term "cache" mean?
(a) A magnetized piece of metal serving as a compass.
(b) A canoe made from tree branches, bark, and gum.
(c) A semi-permanent encampment.
(d) A hidden storage place for provisions.

3. Without a heavy pack, what was listed as the average speed one could hike on a good trail?
(a) From 2 to 2.5 miles per hour.
(b) From 1.5 to 2 miles per hour.
(c) From 3 to 3.5 miles per hour.
(d) From 2.5 to 3 miles per hour.

4. Why did the cold in the north country not feel as uncomfortable as that further south if the right clothes were worn?
(a) Below freezing the discomfort held steady if dry.
(b) It was drier.
(c) Below freezing the discomfort held steady if damp.
(d) It was damper.

5. What was used as a measuring wheel to construct a rough map?
(a) A front wheel and fork of an adult bicycle.
(b) A barrel hoop set between a sapling's forks.
(c) A wheel barrow minus the tub and rear support legs.
(d) A buggy wheel set between a sapling's forks.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Chief Tibeash regard Hank?

2. Jim noted many changes in the ways the Indians lived during the 30 years he had known them, except that most still did what?

3. What is viewed "only in terms of useless effort for which there is nothing to show" by Indians?

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

5. If one did not have a compass, what was suggested one could use?

(see the answer key)

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