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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Dick build in May that he is very satisfied with?
(a) Cache.
(b) Hammock.
(c) Boat.
(d) Furniture.

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

3. What item does Dick find at the hunters' tent camp that is useful to him?
(a) Coffee.
(b) Styrofoam chest with a box of matches inside.
(c) Kettle.
(d) Bottle of soda.

4. What is the temperature on Thanksgiving day?
(a) Minus four degrees.
(b) Twenty-two degrees.
(c) Two degrees.
(d) Ten degrees.

5. What did the jar have in it that Dick opened when he got to Spike's cabin the first evening he arrives?
(a) Green beans.
(b) Tomatoes.
(c) Peaches.
(d) Blueberries.

6. What does Dick make a snow shovel out of before the freeze-up?
(a) Animal skin and a spruce branch.
(b) Coffee cans.
(c) Part of a tin chimney.
(d) Oil drum.

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

8. 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) Empty plastic buckets.
(b) Empty gas can.
(c) Recycled waste baskets.
(d) Old water containers.

9. What kind of plane does Babe use to fly Dick into the wilderness?
(a) Handley Page.
(b) Champion.
(c) Swift.
(d) Taylorcraft.

10. What is the weather like in mid-September when Dick is building his fireplace?
(a) Clear and cool.
(b) Rainy.
(c) Hot.
(d) Snowing.

11. How high above the lake is Low Pass located?
(a) Sixteen hundred feet.
(b) Nine hundred feet.
(c) One thousand feet.
(d) Two thousand feet.

12. What does Babe's wife knit for Dick that Babe delivers on January 9th?
(a) Wool socks.
(b) Blanket.
(c) Sweater.
(d) Long johns.

13. How old is Dick when he begins his wilderness experience?
(a) Forty-five.
(b) Thirty-two.
(c) Twenty-nine.
(d) Fifty-one.

14. How big is the rabbit that Dick sees outside his cabin in early May?
(a) At least two feet tall.
(b) Fifteen inches.
(c) Eighteen inches.
(d) Twelve inches.

15. What animal does Dick take back to his cabin in "Breakup"?
(a) Baby caribou.
(b) Baby chipmunk.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Baby deer.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dick feed the birds and squirrels for Thanksgiving dinner?

2. What does Dick use to create protection for his head and face in the December cold?

3. What wildlife does Dick see that makes him anxious to begin the fireplace project?

4. What does Dick see when he is writing letters in his new cabin in "The Birth of a Cabin"?

5. Who does Babe say he will bring along next time he visits in "Freeze-up"?

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