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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. What was suggested as one way of getting ahead when one worked through new wood?
(a) Hindsight.
(b) Trails.
(c) Binoculars.
(d) Tree marks.

2. Beyond wire springs, a diagram of one way a leather camp bellows could be made indicated what might be used to keep them expanded?
(a) Oak.
(b) Walnut.
(c) Elm.
(d) Willow.

3. Jim's memories of his grandmother having read to him as a youngster from "Swiss Family Robinson" were always stirred by what?
(a) The creaking of his chair when he rocked in it.
(b) The breeze when it stirred the trees.
(c) The rain when it dropped on his tin roof.
(d) His whistling kettle when he boiled water.

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

5. The stars on February nights were compared with sparkling jewels of what color on a black background?
(a) Silver.
(b) Gold.
(c) Blue-white.
(d) Pure white.

Short Answer Questions

1. What were the little wooden pipes used to tap sugar maples for sap called?

2. Why was it recommended to leave one's rifle outside the camp in freezing weather instead of bringing it in where it was warm?

3. 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?

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

5. Great horned mother owls have nested in late February with the young beneath the mother's wings and covered in what color fuzz?

(see the answer key)

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