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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 did Jim relate was the reason it had been difficult to find Chief Tibeash despite his many efforts?
(a) The north country was very rugged and heavily wooded.
(b) Chief Tibeash had moved away for a time.
(c) Indians did not leave forwarding addresses.
(d) The north country was a sparsely populated area.

2. What was viewed as the biggest mistake individuals could make regarding their compasses?
(a) Set them on logs or stumps.
(b) Place them on the ground.
(c) Hold them too far away.
(d) To become suspicious of them.

3. Jim noted many changes in the ways the Indians lived during the 30 years he had known them, except that most still did what?
(a) Maintained respect for all things in nature.
(b) Wore moccasins year-round.
(c) Clung to birch bark canoes.
(d) Used hand-made cutting instruments.

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

5. Jim obtained the speeds for a wind gauge he built when he tested it in what manner?
(a) Against a wind gauge at a forest station.
(b) Against a wind gauge at a high school science lab.
(c) Against a car speedometer when held out the window.
(d) Against a wind gauge at an airport.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the term "cache" mean?

2. Jim enjoyed a feeling of danger in which seasonal air?

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

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

5. Jim wrote about a young man that once blazed a trail on the side he came from, and might have been lost on his return if he had not done what?

(see the answer key)

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