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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Freeze-up.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dick do in the last four days in May in "The Birth of a Cabin"?
(a) Hikes twenty miles a day.
(b) Travels to see Babe.
(c) Goes back to Kodiak Lake.
(d) Lays logs for his cabin.

2. What does Dick see when he is writing letters in his new cabin in "The Birth of a Cabin"?
(a) Spike's airplane.
(b) Herd of caribou.
(c) Big brown bear.
(d) Hunters.

3. What does Dick use to make a wash bucket, wash pan, and flour and storage cans before he moves out of Spike's cabin?
(a) Recycled waste baskets.
(b) Old water containers.
(c) Empty plastic buckets.
(d) Empty gas can.

4. What does Dick build the first week of June?
(a) Cache.
(b) Dock.
(c) Roof skeleton.
(d) Outbuilding.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What time does Dick wake up the first morning in the wilderness?

2. What does Mary toast in the fireplace when she and Babe visit Dick in mid-April?

3. What did the jar have in it that Dick opened when he got to Spike's cabin the first evening he arrives?

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

5. On September 9th, what does Dick hear at the Boss Hunter's cabin in "Camp Meat"?

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