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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, April, Thundering Ice and Black Water.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jim recommended which tool as the most valuable in the woods?
(a) Your gun.
(b) Your axe.
(c) Your knife.
(d) Your compass.

2. In April, in the marshy area near the spring, the initial purple and green hoods of what plant would show?
(a) Watermelons.
(b) Rhubarbs.
(c) Lettuces.
(d) Skunk cabbages.

3. Describe the appearance of Chief Tibeash?
(a) Medium, flacid, and having infirm, aged muscles.
(b) Small, lean, and having tough, strong muscles.
(c) Tall, lean, and having tough, strong muscles.
(d) Large, stout, and having flabby, weak muscles.

4. 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.

5. 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 can of oil.
(b) A bucket of packed snow.
(c) A pail of tree sap.
(d) A cold spring.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Chief Tibeash regard Hank?

2. Jim constructed new furniture during the rainy season in April and provided a diagram to show how he built what?

3. Jim stored all his "treasured things" in an old chest that he kept where?

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

5. What was taught as the proper way to land a canoe ashore?

(see the answer key)

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