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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. The Cache Lake country was a land of what type of terrain?
(a) Rolling hills, none of them very high, with many lakes and streams.
(b) Rolling hills, many of them very high, with sporadic lakes and few streams.
(c) Wooded mountains, most of them low, with many lakes and streams.
(d) Rocky mountains, most of them low, with sporadic lakes and streams.

2. Jim viewed frogs to be good for what?
(a) Fish bait.
(b) Proving yummy frogs legs.
(c) Providing comfort in their croaks.
(d) Eating annoying insects.

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

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

5. What was viewed as the biggest mistake individuals could make regarding their compasses?
(a) Set them on logs or stumps.
(b) Place them on the ground.
(c) Hold them too far away.
(d) To become suspicious of them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jim made bait rods for fishing from what in February?

2. The stars on February nights were compared with sparkling jewels of what color on a black background?

3. How many northern lakes had author John J. "Jim" Rowlands said he had seen when he happened upon Cache Lake?

4. 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?

5. How was dynamite used to break up a log jam?

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