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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 9, August, Harvest of the Wilderness.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

2. What were noted as the keys to surviving in the wilderness, finding one's way about, and avoiding possible dangers?
(a) Learn from those before you and simply apply the lessons.
(b) Observing things closely and watching the sun.
(c) Common sense and observing everything closely.
(d) Always bring a compass and extra food.

3. An unpleasant smell that sometimes indicated the approach of nasty weather was the rainy, earthy odor noticed prior, especially where?
(a) On high, heavily wooded ridge lines.
(b) On high, open watersheds.
(c) Along a rocky, quickly moving rivers.
(d) Near marshy places or muddy ponds.

4. Some brilliant colors of male birds in June change to what by winter?
(a) They remain the same once they are fully grown.
(b) They diminish somewhat in their colors.
(c) They do not even appear like the same bird.
(d) They become even more intense in splendor.

5. The Indians in the north country referred to January as Kushapawasticanum o Pesim which meant what?
(a) The Moon of Great Cold.
(b) The Time of Sleeping Bear.
(c) The Sky of Many Stars.
(d) The Lake of No Canoe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jim relate was the reason it had been difficult to find Chief Tibeash despite his many efforts?

2. Jim obtained the speeds for a wind gauge he built when he tested it in what manner?

3. Along the edge of Cache Lake to the south grew alder side by side with fish-net willows and what else?

4. What Indian game was diagrammed and described that Chief Tibeash was a champion of as a boy, and shot stones and arrows?

5. The best area for partridge in the Cache Lake country was said to have been around where?

(see the answer key)

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