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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Camp Meat.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dick mean when he says "That's living in the wilderness first class."
(a) Using fine china for meals.
(b) Hanging the meat high, letting it freeze, and sawing off what you need for a meal.
(c) Listening to classical music.
(d) Having a kerosene heater in the cabin.

2. What does Dick do with the litter he finds when he visits the hunters' tent camp in "Camp Meat"?
(a) Bags it up for trash pick-up.
(b) Burns it.
(c) Throws it in the lake.
(d) Buries it.

3. What time does Dick wake up the first morning in the wilderness?
(a) Six a.m.
(b) Ten a.m.
(c) Seven a.m.
(d) Four a.m.

4. When does Dick plan to start a garden?
(a) Late May.
(b) September.
(c) June.
(d) Early July.

5. Where did Dick work in the 1940s?
(a) Oregon.
(b) Ilinois.
(c) Minnesota.
(d) Canada.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Dick haul the rocks from to construct the fireplace?

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

3. What does Dick say a person living alone has to do in "The Birth of a Cabin"?

4. What does Dick hunt on September 20th in "Camp Meat"?

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

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