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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who taught Sam how to make fire when he first got to the mountains?
(a) Pete.
(b) Andy.
(c) Chris.
(d) Bill.

2. What did Sam use for soap when he bathed in the spring?
(a) Soapwort.
(b) Horse chestnut.
(c) Bracken.
(d) Slippery elm.

3. How large in diameter was the tree that housed Sam's tree home?
(a) 8 feet.
(b) 10 feet.
(c) 5 feet.
(d) 6 feet.

4. How many falcon babies were in the nest when Sam took one of the nestlings?
(a) 3.
(b) 4.
(c) 2.
(d) 5.

5. In "I Learn to Season My Food," where did Sam spend the day when he still couldn't go home because the man was still by his tree?
(a) Library.
(b) Bill's place.
(c) Old homestead.
(d) Marsh.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the old lay in "I Meet One of My Own Kind" say killed chickens in the area?

2. What did Sam's father used to tell him marked the northern border of Gribley's land?

3. Where did Sam know that he could get tannic acid to tan the hide of the deer that the poacher shot in "How a Door Came to Me"?

4. In "I Find a Real Man," what did the man want to call Sam?

5. When did Sam leave his home and come to live in the mountains?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sam get a deer in "How a Door Came to Me"?

2. Why did Sam have trouble getting tannic acid to tan his deer hide and how did he finally get it in "Frightful Learns Her ABCs"?

3. When Sam left New York, what did he take with him?

4. How did Sam get a falcon?

5. What did Miss Turner do for Sam before he left in "The King's Provider?"

6. How is Sam's tree home laid out?

7. Why did Sam build a house that could not be seen?

8. How did Sam make salt in "I Learn to Season My Food"?

9. How did Sam describe the Jack-in-the-pulpit and how to eat it?

10. How did Sam find the old Gribley farm?

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