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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. Mal de raquette was another term for what?
(a) Sprained ankle.
(b) Snowshoe lameness.
(c) Snow ski pain.
(d) Frostbite of the foot.

2. 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?
(a) Frequently looked behind himself upon his return.
(b) Located a landmark on a hill behind himself.
(c) Carried a map and compass to find his way out.
(d) Followed a creek downstream to a lake and found his way.

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

4. How did Chief Tibeash regard Hank?
(a) He strongly disliked him.
(b) He initially liked, but later disliked him.
(c) He strongly liked him.
(d) He initially disliked, but later liked him.

5. For sleeping in the open during winter, it was stated there was nothing to equal what kind of a robe?
(a) Wolfskin.
(b) Rabbitskin.
(c) Deerskin.
(d) Goose down.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were noted as the keys to surviving in the wilderness, finding one's way about, and avoiding possible dangers?

2. Jim's memories of his grandmother having read to him as a youngster from "Swiss Family Robinson" were always stirred by what?

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

4. The scent of what animals troubled deer and moose the most?

5. What time of year was it when Jim first came upon Cache Lake?

(see the answer key)

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