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

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

3. Rice was considered an essential ration for what reason?
(a) It was among the healthiest.
(b) It mixed well with many foods.
(c) It took little room and was light.
(d) It needed only to be boiled.

4. It took both patience and time to tame a wild animal, so what was suggested?
(a) Use food to get them accustomed to you.
(b) Initially keep them in a pen or cage.
(c) Give them a lot of attention.
(d) Get them young and bring them up.

5. What was the main rule in a form of football that Indians played with a wood chip initially buried in an area between 2 goal sticks at each end?
(a) Use only toes and feet to dig the chip out and kick it to the goal.
(b) Stay on one foot and use a stick to dig and nudge the chip to the goal.
(c) Use only toes to dig the chip out and nudge it with a stick to the goal.
(d) Use a stick with hands behind to dig and nudge the chip to the goal.

Short Answer Questions

1. When traveling in August, what food was suggested one could rely on obtaining by "living off the land" to supplement rations taken?

2. A fire piston, which worked on the principle that air got extremely hot when compressed, might reach over how many degrees Fahrenheit?

3. Jim ranked his fishing skills from best to worst in what order?

4. What were other terms used to refer to cedar waxwings in Cache Lake country?

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?

Short Essay Questions

1. Chief Tibeash would likely get angry if he was called suspicious, but what was one of his beliefs Jim observed?

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

3. What was one way Chief Tibeash liked to demonstrate how good a woodsman he was to Jim?

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

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

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

7. What were some points Jim noted about photograph blinds?

8. How did Jim once evade the danger of the woods on fire?

9. What did Jim have to say about fishing on the camping trip with Chief Tibeash and Hank?

10. What did Jim note about the two young men who visited Hank by canoe?

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