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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 animals does Dick see through his scope that make him think "a small mining operation" is in progress?
(a) Rams.
(b) Beavers.
(c) Rabbits.
(d) Brown bear and cubs.

2. What does Dick do on his birthday, May 4th?
(a) Canoes.
(b) Sleeps.
(c) Takes photographs of a bear family.
(d) Carves a set of utensils.

3. What does Dick have for supper the night after exploring the Chilikadrotna River?
(a) Pasta.
(b) Navy beans.
(c) Salad.
(d) Stew.

4. How does Dick describe the bear that charges him from the willow clumps while he is on Falls Mountain?
(a) Mean.
(b) Crazed-looking.
(c) Very large and frightening.
(d) Head as broad as a bulldozer blade.

5. What is Dick distracted by when he notches the wrong end of a log?
(a) Caribou.
(b) Bird.
(c) Bear.
(d) Ram.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. What does Dick say about the gleam of his cabin when he returns from the Chilikadrotna River?

3. What does Dick make out of a baby caribou calfskin in May?

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

5. What did the red runt do to Dick's sleeping bag?

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