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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Jim had observed too many woodsmen suffering from what, to know that one could not abuse one's stomach without paying a price?

3. The man who tamed the moose to pull him around came into town on Saturday nights and tied up, then smoked what as people stared?

4. Cree Indians viewed the Big Dipper (part of Ursa Major) as the Great Bear constellation, and the three stars in the handle as what?

5. The Indians in the north country referred to January as Kushapawasticanum o Pesim which meant what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did those in Cache Lake Country do to obtain sap in March?

2. What did Jim discuss related to the canoe trip he and his comrades planned?

3. What was it Jim observed about him and his comrades as they made their way in the March snow around Cache Lake?

4. What did Jim observe about the lumberjacks?

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

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

7. What did Jim relate about the bear hunt he went on with Chief Tibeash in March?

8. What did Jim observe about Chief Tibeash's patience?

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

10. What happened after Chief Tibeash told Jim about an Indian who owned some husky pups?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jim preferred a birch bark canoe to a manufactured version. How was he able to make such a canoe? What techniques were necessary to repair and maintain a canoe constructed of birch bark? How was a canoe made from birch bark used in a different manner than a manufactured version?

Essay Topic 2

What procedures were described as basics for ice fishing? What minimal equipment was necessary and how was it to be utilized? Once caught, what procedure was related as to how uncooked fish could be frozen?

Essay Topic 3

Jim went into a fairly lengthy discussion concerning dewdrops. Explain his views of what dew was. How did he suggest one experimented to show how dew formed? What were different locations he suggested one looked closely at dewdrops and the reasons why?

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