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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Birth of a Cabin.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Dick describe Babe?
(a) Average height and well-built.
(b) Wiry as a weasel.
(c) Heavy-set.
(d) Tall and lanky.

2. What do Spike and Hope Carrithers lend to Dick?
(a) Money.
(b) Television.
(c) Jet ski.
(d) Cabin and canoe.

3. What does The Chugach Range remind Dick of?
(a) Hiking through the Appalachian moutains.
(b) A great steeple.
(c) Camper trip from Nebraska.
(d) Pictures from his youth.

4. What are Grizzly Eggs?
(a) Bear food.
(b) Breakfast dish.
(c) Dick's name for two boulders.
(d) Restaurant name.

5. What does Dick use beach gravel for?
(a) For his garden paths.
(b) Foundation of cabin.
(c) Decoration outside Spike's cabin.
(d) To fill his empty gas cans to use as weights.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dick use a trotline for?

2. What is located 75 feet from the bay and situated on a knolltop?

3. To write this book, what does Sam Keith use of Dick Proenneke's?

4. What does Dick use wildfire greens for in "The Birth of a Cabin"?

5. What is Dick distracted by when he notches the wrong end of a log?

(see the answer key)

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