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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 6, May, The Green Tide Flows North.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jim enjoyed a feeling of danger in which seasonal air?
(a) Cold autumn.
(b) Deep winter.
(c) Cool spring.
(d) Hot summer.

2. What trees in the swamps sheltered the deer and moose during the winter?
(a) Yellow pine and oak.
(b) Cedar and black spruce.
(c) Cedar and oak.
(d) Black spruce and birch.

3. Jim made bait rods for fishing from what in February?
(a) Old rifle cleaning rods.
(b) Collapsible automobile radio antenas.
(c) Old fencing foils.
(d) Spruce pine sapplings.

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

5. What board that was free of knots and had a straight grain was said to have been the right stock to make a light paddle from?
(a) Ash.
(b) Elm.
(c) Spruce.
(d) Oak.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Jim noted the snow that remained in May beneath a shaggy spruce behind his cabin reminded him of what?

3. The partridges were said to make a thumping sound that escalated increasingly from a slow drumming to a strange noise similar to what?

4. Hank sometimes made his own candles when he used the bark slipped from what small decayed saplings to mold them?

5. In April, in the marshy area near the spring, the initial purple and green hoods of what plant would show?

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