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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the settlement ensure its survival?
(a) They refuse all strangers.
(b) By offering their best furs.
(c) The make money by selling coffee.
(d) They give Wulff free meals.

2. What is the quickest way out of Siberia?
(a) Trans-Siberia Railway.
(b) Trekking to China.
(c) Riding a deer through Yakutia territory.
(d) Swimming Lake Baikal to Manchuria.

3. Who does Yakov say is searching for Mack?
(a) Natalya.
(b) Peshkov.
(c) Alekhin.
(d) Kyra.

4. What did the Alaskan Indian carry over Chilhoot Pass?
(a) A piano.
(b) Three hundred pounds of bear meat.
(c) Fifty bear hides.
(d) Half a ton of water.

5. Which arrow finally kills the bear?
(a) The sixth shot into its right side.
(b) The fifth shot down its throat.
(c) The fourth shot.
(d) The third arrow into its throat.

6. How does Mack make sure he can leave the village quickly if needed?
(a) He prepares a car.
(b) He tells no one of his plans to leave.
(c) He prepaers a helicopter.
(d) He makes several trails.

7. Why does the rest of the village want Mack to stay?
(a) He has money.
(b) He is a good builder.
(c) He is a tourist attraction.
(d) He provides them with meat.

8. What is the name of the man who tortured Zamatev during the war?
(a) Kyra.
(b) Bosch.
(c) Alekhin.
(d) Stegman.

9. What does Joe realize he needs to actually escape Siberia?
(a) Another pair of mocassins.
(b) Some rubles.
(c) More bear skins.
(d) Some Sanskrit.

10. What advantage in grooming do most Indians have?
(a) Lack of odour.
(b) Straight, easy to manage hair.
(c) Clean skin.
(d) Not much facial hair.

11. Why is Zhikarev so worried?
(a) His cabbage soup is too thin.
(b) Wulff is normally more reserved.
(c) His feet are feeling better.
(d) The recent batch of furs is poor in quality.

12. How many moccasins could Joe make from the reindeer?
(a) Only one pair.
(b) Only four pairs.
(c) About 14 pairs.
(d) Easily nine pairs.

13. By which river does Joe fall asleep from weariness?
(a) The Kalar River.
(b) The Amur River.
(c) The Tsipa River.
(d) The Lena River.

14. Which member of the village wants Mack to leave?
(a) Peshkov.
(b) Stephen.
(c) Natayla.
(d) Davis.

15. Why does Mack think Alekhin will be harder to hide from?
(a) He is an Indian.
(b) He will stop at nothing.
(c) He knows Mack inside out.
(d) He is a marine.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Kyra so confused?

2. Why does Joe find it so easy to escape his cell?

3. Which berries do little for Joe's hunger?

4. What does Shepilov not have in Kyra's eyes?

5. Why do the Soviets capture Makatozi?

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