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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. What was described as the best hour a summer day offered?
(a) Noon.
(b) Dusk.
(c) Midnight.
(d) Dawn.

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

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

4. Jim's grandfather, a seafaring man, frequently related that those who ventured out without what in their boats were foolish?
(a) A fresh water supply.
(b) A compass.
(c) A flashlight.
(d) A handgun.

5. Jim, Chief Tibeash, and Hank made their summer trip by canoe to Lake Waweashkashing, which meant what?
(a) "A sandy shore all around."
(b) "Peace beneath the falls."
(c) "Mirror of the sky above."
(d) "A grassy place in the water."

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Chief Tibeash regard Hank?

2. A pair of canoes were sometimes lashed together how far apart with saplings across the stern and forward thwarts?

3. For what purpose did Chief Tibeash fell dead trees when camping?

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

5. What were other terms used to refer to cedar waxwings in Cache Lake country?

(see the answer key)

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