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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. What was described as the best hour a summer day offered?
(a) Dusk.
(b) Noon.
(c) Dawn.
(d) Midnight.

2. Whose idea was it to construct a "scrap-pile radio" from odds and ends found around a north woods camp that was diagrammed?
(a) Jim.
(b) Mr. Beedee.
(c) Hank.
(d) Chief Tibeash.

3. November included many gray days with heavy rolling clouds that reminded Chief Tibeash of what animals?
(a) Giant schools of Great Lakes fish.
(b) Large flocks of gray geese.
(c) Great migrating caribou herds.
(d) Big hunting wolf packs.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Jim built a pot that made a little fuel go far like one he read about used in what country where a handful of grass cooked a whole pot of stew?

2. A harness of what type hide was made for Tripper to get him adjusted to pulling a sled by initially pulling a dead spruce piece?

3. A cold room in the ground was built of double board walls separated by 2"x4" uprights, and the space between filled with what substance?

4. An unpleasant smell that sometimes indicated the approach of nasty weather was the rainy, earthy odor noticed prior, especially where?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Jim stipulate was needed in the way of provisions during a camping trip?

2. What was the reason Jim carried needles?

3. How did Jim stipulate he went when he traveled?

4. What did Jim note about their canoes as the men's camping trip approached?

5. What was it Jim noted about Hank's black and white pet?

6. What were the things Jim noted about July?

7. How was the game of snow-snakes played?

8. What was it Chief Tibeash explained to Jim about the tracks of a large dog wolf revealed?

9. Why did Jim view August as among the best times to travel?

10. How did Jim describe the first time he went alone to try his horn of birch bark to call for moose?

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