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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through "Sliding Currents" and "Changes: Skin to Wood to Water to Become".

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the canoe compared to in "Sliding Currents," when it is caught in the current of the whirlpool?
(a) Feather.
(b) Piece of fabric.
(c) Floating stick or leaf.
(d) Pollen.

2. When Leif tires during his search for an island in "Island Current," what does he do?
(a) Pulls into an inlet and sleeps.
(b) Pulls the canoe on the shore and sleeps in a thicket.
(c) Dozes and drifts.
(d) Splashes water on his face and eats some salmon.

3. In "Mother Waters and Brother Whales," how does the canoe move across the water when creatures are pushing it?
(a) Like pollen.
(b) Life a flower.
(c) Like a feather.
(d) Like a leaf.

4. At the base of what type of tree does Leif bury Little Carl?
(a) Balsam.
(b) Cedar.
(c) Fir.
(d) Pine.

5. In "Mother Waters and Brother Whales," what does Leif hear that seeps into his unconsciousness?
(a) Breathing.
(b) Wind in the pines.
(c) Waves on the canoe.
(d) Birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. How do the whales herd the salmon in "Hunger"?

2. How far is Leif able to paddle when the wind is against him in "Hunger"?

3. How does Leif clean the canoe after he regains consciousness?

4. What wakes Leif in "Sliding Currents"?

5. In "Hunger," in what direction does Leif try to go so he can turn north again?

(see the answer key)

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