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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. Whose idea was it to construct a "scrap-pile radio" from odds and ends found around a north woods camp that was diagrammed?

2. Three blasts on the horn made from that of a buffalo was suggested to signal what?

3. When Chief Tibeash planned a trip he would go and look at the grass just before he turned in at night for what reason?

4. The kerf of a tree was a reference to what?

5. It was recommended that any bacon taken was lean for what reason?

Short Essay Questions

1. What were recommendations about smoked cheese?

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

3. What did Indians that left their summer lake sites generally take back with them to northern trapping grounds?

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

5. How did the Indians construct their stilts?

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

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

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

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

10. What was the reason Jim carried needles?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Jim compared a couple of hammocks. Identify the components to be used and the steps to be followed in the construction of a barrel-stave hammock. How did he compare it with a Brazilian version a friend gave him?

Essay Topic 2

How did Jim elaborate on the clear skies of a northern February night? What did he relate about the moonlight of that month? What were the traditional patterns the stars formed that he discussed? What did he convey about the Indian patterns he liked better?

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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