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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. The Cache Lake country was a land of what type of terrain?

2. What Indian game was diagrammed and described that Chief Tibeash was a champion of as a boy, and shot stones and arrows?

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

4. Jim constructed new furniture during the rainy season in April and provided a diagram to show how he built what?

5. The best area for partridge in the Cache Lake country was said to have been around where?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Jim describe he did with his canoe in March?

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

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

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

5. What were Jim's plans for his garden in April?

6. What took place as the weather began to get warmer in March?

7. What was noted about March regarding animals?

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

9. How did Jim discover Cache Lake?

10. What views did Jim have regarding birds that migrated?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

John J. "Jim" Rowlands noted in the Foreword to the Wilderness Edition of his book: "Many readers of Cache Lake Country have told me that its simple philosophy--our way of thinking to get the best out of life--has been helpful in easing the tensions of the hard fast pace of modern civilization." Identify and expound on various examples where this technique was employed by the author.

Essay Topic 2

What was a heliograph used for? What steps did Jim detail were to be taken to construct a heliograph from components on hand? In what manner was a heliograph to be utilized?

Essay Topic 3

Jim stipulated that canoe paddles varied as people did, and he had recommendations as to how one should be constructed. What requirements did he stipulate regarding the "blank" from which a paddle was to be made? What were dimensions of different paddle types? What tools were used? What were the steps involved? What did Rowlands advise about the care of a paddle?

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