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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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 rolling beat.
(c) A crackling.
(d) An applause.

2. 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?
(a) Snow owls.
(b) Snow buntings.
(c) Snowbirds.
(d) Snow geese.

3. What were the little wooden pipes used to tap sugar maples for sap called?
(a) Spiles.
(b) Spills.
(c) Splits.
(d) Spikes.

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

5. The stars on February nights were compared with sparkling jewels of what color on a black background?
(a) Silver.
(b) Gold.
(c) Blue-white.
(d) Pure white.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was suggested as one way of getting ahead when one worked through new wood?

2. Great horned mother owls have nested in late February with the young beneath the mother's wings and covered in what color fuzz?

3. How many different ways to construct a candle lantern from a can were diagrammed?

4. When the sap was running freely, how many gallons were obtained per day from a good tree?

5. What was described as the greatest mistake a man could make leaving camp without doing?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Jim come to construct his cabin on Cache Lake?

2. What did Jim observe about the lumberjacks?

3. What story did Jim relate about a lumberjack he identified as Sam?

4. What happened to the ice in Cache Lake when April arrived?

5. How was Chief Tibeash identified as the headman of his tribe?

6. What was Jim reminded of when May arrived?

7. What did the geologist who visited Jim after two years explain to him?

8. How did Jim view the stars he saw at night?

9. What was it Jim advised everyone to avoid getting lost?

10. How did Jim take the reader through the change of seasons?

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