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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. What was described as a good way to store fish in the winter?
(a) Dried and smoked.
(b) Wrapped in leaves and bark.
(c) Pickled in vinegar.
(d) Frozen in the ice.

2. Indians in the north country believed what had a spirit?
(a) Every living thing.
(b) Every mammal, bird, and fish.
(c) Every mammal and many trees.
(d) Everything.

3. Great horned mother owls have nested in late February with the young beneath the mother's wings and covered in what color fuzz?
(a) Cream.
(b) Pink.
(c) Snow white.
(d) Brown.

4. For what purpose did Chief Tibeash fell dead trees when camping?
(a) For shelter as drier, standing dead trees repelled more moisture.
(b) For camp perimeter as drier dead trees cracked louder and awakened.
(c) For spirits as dead trees left standing brought rain and bad luck.
(d) For fires as standing dead trees were drier than timber on the ground.

5. 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 geese.
(b) Snow buntings.
(c) Snow owls.
(d) Snowbirds.

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. What did the term "cache" mean?

4. Jim recalled one Thanksgiving he shared with Chief Tibeash and Hank where what was the only thing wrong?

5. What was described as the greatest mistake a man could make leaving camp without doing?

(see the answer key)

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