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

2. Jim noted that he generally cached his small canoe where?
(a) On Cache Lake.
(b) On Snow Goose Lake.
(c) On Shining Tree Lake.
(d) On Beaver Tail Lake.

3. How was dynamite used to break up a log jam?
(a) It was thrown from a boat that sped off.
(b) It was thrown toward it from the shore.
(c) It was tied to a long pole and rammed into it.
(d) It was dropped from a small plane flying over.

4. Jim stored all his "treasured things" in an old chest that he kept where?
(a) On the covered porch.
(b) Under the steps.
(c) Out in his shed.
(d) Under his bunk.

5. March was the start of the transition into the spring season, one sign of which was what?
(a) Deciduous trees began to shed leaves to make way for new buds.
(b) Red squirrels that chattered from the maple tops.
(c) Stormy weather that came in like a lamb and went out as a lion.
(d) First geese as they began to fly north.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Cree Indians viewed the Big Dipper (part of Ursa Major) as the Great Bear constellation, and the three stars in the handle as what?

3. The Indians in the north country referred to January as Kushapawasticanum o Pesim which meant what?

4. It took how many gallons of sap from a maple to yield a good pound of sugar?

5. In Chapter 5, Jim knew it would not be long after the ice broke up that what would happen?

(see the answer key)

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