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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, December, Blizzards and Wailing Winds.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. An analogous comparison was made between a blizzard and what animal?
(a) A bear.
(b) A wolf.
(c) A cougar.
(d) A lynx.

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) Walnut.
(b) Willow.
(c) Oak.
(d) Elm.

3. It was recommended that any bacon taken was lean for what reason?
(a) Lean bacon kept longer.
(b) Fat bacon was tougher.
(c) Fat bacon left little once fried.
(d) Lean bacon was healthier.

4. 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) "Pet raising raucous."
(c) "Seed-catalogue fever."
(d) "Firewood felling frenxy."

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Jim and Hank ventured to the dam located where each spring to determine how the beaver had fared the previous winter?

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

3. Although hard on the shoulders, how was it suggested paddles might be lashed for portaging a canoe?

4. Indians in the north country believed what had a spirit?

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

(see the answer key)

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