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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, February, The Stars and the Silence.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jim chose what site on Cache Lake for his cabin?
(a) An island.
(b) A meadow.
(c) An inlet.
(d) A knoll.

2. The Indians in the north country referred to January as Kushapawasticanum o Pesim which meant what?
(a) The Lake of No Canoe.
(b) The Moon of Great Cold.
(c) The Time of Sleeping Bear.
(d) The Sky of Many Stars.

3. The remedy offered for metal that got so cold that it chipped was to heat it until it was dull red before it was plunged into what?
(a) A bucket of packed snow.
(b) A can of oil.
(c) A cold spring.
(d) A pail of tree sap.

4. If one did not have a compass, what was suggested one could use?
(a) The sun and rocks.
(b) The wind and clouds.
(c) The clouds and rocks.
(d) The wind and sun.

5. Jim's memories of his grandmother having read to him as a youngster from "Swiss Family Robinson" were always stirred by what?
(a) His whistling kettle when he boiled water.
(b) The rain when it dropped on his tin roof.
(c) The creaking of his chair when he rocked in it.
(d) The breeze when it stirred the trees.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jim had observed too many woodsmen suffering from what, to know that one could not abuse one's stomach without paying a price?

2. Jim's grandfather, a seafaring man, frequently related that those who ventured out without what in their boats were foolish?

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?

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

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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