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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, October, Frost on Scarlet Leaves.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jim stated he one day hoped to glue together thin strips of white holly and dark wood into a block to carve a what?
(a) Panda bear.
(b) Skunk.
(c) Zebra.
(d) Dalmatian.

2. Why was August identified as the most favorable time for traveling in the north woods?
(a) The weather tended to be comfortable with cooling days.
(b) Black flies, mosquitoes, and midges were nearly gone.
(c) It was the harvest season with cool days and nights.
(d) Days and nights were warm and usually settled.

3. How long was a side of bacon hung in the smokehouse?
(a) 6-12 hours.
(b) 1 full week.
(c) Several days.
(d) 12-24 hours.

4. The man who tamed the moose to pull him around came into town on Saturday nights and tied up, then smoked what as people stared?
(a) Cigars.
(b) Pipe tobacco.
(c) Cigarettes.
(d) Cornsilk.

5. Jim always had a spell of what that generally came on without warning toward the end of an April day?
(a) `"Roof patching party."
(b) "Seed-catalogue fever."
(c) "Pet raising raucous."
(d) "Firewood felling frenxy."

Short Answer Questions

1. What were noted as the keys to surviving in the wilderness, finding one's way about, and avoiding possible dangers?

2. It was noted that tree swallows ate what else beyond insects as few other swallows did?

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

4. Jim chose what site on Cache Lake for his cabin?

5. What did the beavers store in the mud beneath their ponds as food for the winter?

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