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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. How much flour was recommended could be substituted per each loaf of bread taken for a week's venture?
(a) 1/3 lbs.
(b) 1/2 lbs.
(c) None.
(d) 1/4 lbs.

2. What Indian game was diagrammed and described that Chief Tibeash was a champion of as a boy, and shot stones and arrows?
(a) A bow.
(b) A sling stick.
(c) A crossbow.
(d) A slingshot.

3. What was recommended about magnetizing needles?
(a) Always do all of them in the same direction.
(b) Do small ones north-south, large ones south-north.
(c) Do large ones north-south, small ones south-north.
(d) Always magnetize but the direction did not matter.

4. After owls have gulped their food down whole and it has digested, what was the next step for bones and fur?
(a) It was excreted in flight like other birds.
(b) It was spit out as paste to build nests.
(c) It was spit out in neat, rolled pellets.
(d) It was spit out similar to a cat fur ball.

5. The partridges were said to make a thumping sound that escalated increasingly from a slow drumming to a strange noise similar to what?
(a) A snapping.
(b) A crackling.
(c) An applause.
(d) A rolling beat.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long was it from the time Jim initially happened upon Cache Lake until he first returned?

2. Chief Tibeash said the herring gulls in their region were apt to do what when a storm approached?

3. What toys did Chief Tibeash and his brothers whittle as boys for use in the winter on the lakes?

4. Jim's grandfather, a seafaring man, frequently related that those who ventured out without what in their boats were foolish?

5. When Chief Tibeash planned a trip he would go and look at the grass just before he turned in at night for what reason?

(see the answer key)

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