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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What are mukluks?
(a) Children.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Boots.
(d) Small birds.

2. What is supposedly contained in raw seal meat?
(a) Worms.
(b) Eggs.
(c) Larvae.
(d) Parasites.

3. What color is animal fat?
(a) Clear.
(b) White.
(c) Brown.
(d) Yellow.

4. According to the old man, what should one do after killing an animal?
(a) Atone.
(b) Pray.
(c) Hide it.
(d) Thank it.

5. Russel offers to give his ___ to the old man but Oogruk refuses.
(a) Hat.
(b) Parka.
(c) Boots.
(d) Gun.

6. Russel is surprised when the old man says he will go with Russel to do what?
(a) Run the dogs.
(b) Fish.
(c) Swim.
(d) Hunt.

7. Where did the dogs come from?
(a) Mackenzie River.
(b) Eastern Delta.
(c) Silver Valley.
(d) Northern Territories.

8. What animal was used to make Russel's outerparka?
(a) Bear.
(b) Seal.
(c) Deer.
(d) Moose.

9. The dogs were a cross between wolves and ____.
(a) Samoyeds.
(b) Huskies.
(c) Saint Bernards.
(d) German Shepards.

10. Where do Russel and his father spend the Summer months?
(a) Igloo.
(b) Fish camp.
(c) Oil rigs.
(d) Government house.

11. Russel wore pants made from the skin of which animal?
(a) Walrus.
(b) Caribou.
(c) Seal.
(d) Bear.

12. What item did Russel own and used in place of dogs?
(a) Power shovel.
(b) Toboggan.
(c) Snowshoes.
(d) Snowmachine.

13. When Russel and Oogruk go hunting, they take ___ harpoons.
(a) 4.
(b) 3.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

14. Oogruk says that the new village had good things. Which was not one of the good things mentioned?
(a) Songs.
(b) Women.
(c) Meat.
(d) Fish.

15. What type of animal skins line the elder's floor?
(a) Bear.
(b) Caribou.
(c) Seal.
(d) Moose.

Short Answer Questions

1. Russel's slippers were made from which material?

2. What is Russel's last name?

3. What animal was used to make Russel's underparka?

4. What does the elder warm in the pan?

5. The dogs also had the blood of ancestors from which location?

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