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

2. What does Dick leave behind at the Carrithers home when he flies to Anchorage?
(a) Camper.
(b) Motorcycle.
(c) Bike.
(d) Car.

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

4. What year did Sam meet Dick?
(a) 2004.
(b) 1940.
(c) 1979.
(d) 1952.

5. What does Dick say a person living alone has to do in "The Birth of a Cabin"?
(a) Write a lot of letters.
(b) Sing.
(c) Get things down to a system.
(d) Read books.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dick use to make a wash bucket, wash pan, and flour and storage cans before he moves out of Spike's cabin?

2. What is the setting of Dick's wilderness experience?

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

4. What are Grizzly Eggs?

5. How old is Dick when he begins his wilderness experience?

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