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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Until Another Spring.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dick find inside the large pot in the cabin located on the bank of the Chilikadrotna River?
(a) Old fish bones.
(b) Snake skins.
(c) Dead mice.
(d) Rocks.

2. When Babe stops by briefly on September 19th in "Camp Meat", what does he say he will bring Dick soon?
(a) Large package.
(b) Warm clothing.
(c) Book.
(d) Better utensils.

3. What situation does Dick panic over at the beginning of "Cloud Country"?
(a) Problems with his fireplace.
(b) Mice in his cache.
(c) Lost food.
(d) He can't find his axe.

4. On the last day Dick is in the wilderness, what is the weather like?
(a) Hot and dry.
(b) Rough and stormy.
(c) Snowing.
(d) Clear, calm, and thirty-two degrees.

5. What has a lived-in look in "Until Another Spring" that Dick says has been deserted for a couple of years?
(a) Beaver lodge.
(b) Caribou nursery.
(c) Bear den.
(d) Cabin on Glacier Creek.

Short Answer Questions

1. What holiday does Babe visit Dick in "Freeze-up"?

2. What animal does Dick see through his binoculars after he has investigated what the magpies are calling about while exploring the Chilikadrotna River?

3. What does Dick make from the high-bush cranberries he picks in "Freeze-up"?

4. What does Dick call "this great big country" at the end of his essay on the Chilikadrotna River?

5. What happened to Dick's styrofoam chest in "Red Runt"?

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