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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many different ways to construct a candle lantern from a can were diagrammed?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 1.
(d) 3.

2. What was the Indian term for partridges?
(a) Chaskasee.
(b) Ben-asee.
(c) Yaxkin-ben.
(d) Nimiteh.

3. What was described as a good way to store fish in the winter?
(a) Pickled in vinegar.
(b) Wrapped in leaves and bark.
(c) Frozen in the ice.
(d) Dried and smoked.

4. What did the term "cache" mean?
(a) A semi-permanent encampment.
(b) A canoe made from tree branches, bark, and gum.
(c) A magnetized piece of metal serving as a compass.
(d) A hidden storage place for provisions.

5. What board that was free of knots and had a straight grain was said to have been the right stock to make a light paddle from?
(a) Oak.
(b) Spruce.
(c) Elm.
(d) Ash.

6. Cree Indians viewed the Big Dipper (part of Ursa Major) as the Great Bear constellation, and the three stars in the handle as what?
(a) Paw tracks.
(b) Cubs.
(c) Beehives.
(d) Hunters.

7. Wolves were heard at Cache Lake in February, but not as much as at what other location?
(a) Knothole Lake.
(b) Snow Goose Lake.
(c) Thunder Lake.
(d) Shining Tree Lake.

8. March was the start of the transition into the spring season, one sign of which was what?
(a) Deciduous trees began to shed leaves to make way for new buds.
(b) Red squirrels that chattered from the maple tops.
(c) First geese as they began to fly north.
(d) Stormy weather that came in like a lamb and went out as a lion.

9. The best area for partridge in the Cache Lake country was said to have been around where?
(a) Manitoupeepagee River.
(b) Porcupine Ridge.
(c) Jumping Sand Springs.
(d) Faraway See Hill.

10. It took how many gallons of sap from a maple to yield a good pound of sugar?
(a) 4 to 6.
(b) 2 to 4.
(c) 1 to 3.
(d) 3 to 5.

11. Jim and Hank ventured to the dam located where each spring to determine how the beaver had fared the previous winter?
(a) To Knothole Lake.
(b) On Otter Stream.
(c) On Beaver Tail Lake.
(d) On Caterwaul Creek.

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

13. Jim had observed too many woodsmen suffering from what, to know that one could not abuse one's stomach without paying a price?
(a) "Bursting in the belly."
(b) "Storming in the stomach."
(c) "Gale in the gut."
(d) "Misery in the innards."

14. What was viewed as the biggest mistake individuals could make regarding their compasses?
(a) To become suspicious of them.
(b) Place them on the ground.
(c) Hold them too far away.
(d) Set them on logs or stumps.

15. Jim, who favored what particular bird types, together with Hank made specific styles of houses to attract those they liked?
(a) Always chickadees and usually cardinals.
(b) Always house wrens and usually bluebirds.
(c) Always white doves and usually robins.
(d) Always hummingbirds and usually swallows.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the cold in the north country not feel as uncomfortable as that further south if the right clothes were worn?

2. What were the little wooden pipes used to tap sugar maples for sap called?

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

4. What was Tripper given a piece of to chew on virtually endlessly?

5. What birds were seen as they first flew up and struck weed tops, and then settled and fed on seeds that fell in the snow?

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