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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. What is Leif's canoe made of?
(a) Cedar.
(b) Birch.
(c) Pine.
(d) Oak.

2. What type of huts do Lief, little Carl, and the men live in?
(a) Peat.
(b) Pine branch.
(c) Bark.
(d) Willow branch.

3. What does Leif use as tinder to start a fire in "Whale Song" to cook his fish?
(a) Mouse nest.
(b) Dry pine needles.
(c) Dry twigs.
(d) Squirrel nest.

4. How many rocks, none bigger than Leif's fist, cover the shore where Leif goes with the whales in "Whales"?
(a) Billions.
(b) Hundreds of thousands.
(c) Hundreds.
(d) Millions.

5. How old was Leif when he and others were left in an isolated fish camp where a small river came into the sea?
(a) 9.
(b) 11.
(c) 12.
(d) 10.

Short Answer Questions

1. How deep does Leif wade when he fishes in "Whale Song"?

2. Where does Leif decide to bury Little Carl?

3. In "Hunger," what cuts across the narrow stone-ledge outlet where Leif finds himself?

4. In "The Men Who Lost Their Shadows," when does Leif start vomiting on his trip with Little Carl?

5. How many whales does Leif think he sees in "Whales"?

Short Essay Questions

1. Where is Leif left when he is 12 and why?

2. What does a mother whale do when she tires of her young ones playing with the canoe in "Mother Waters and Brother Whales"?

3. What does Leif dream-remember about the whales?

4. What is Leif's condition at the beginning of "Mother Waters and Brother Whales"?

5. How does Leif make a fish spear?

6. In "Whale Song," how does Leif break camp?

7. How does Leif get Little Carl's body out of the canoe?

8. What are the circumstances of Leif's birth?

9. Who is Little Carl?

10. What is the canoe like that Leif is in and how was it made?

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