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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Dick waiting for from Babe Alsworth when he is in Kodiak?
(a) Letter.
(b) Package.
(c) Telegram.
(d) Phone call.

2. What does Dick make for his kitchen window in "Breakup"?
(a) Window seat.
(b) Screen.
(c) Flower box.
(d) Curtains.

3. What does Dick use to test the draft in his new fireplace?
(a) Cigar.
(b) Fireweed seeds.
(c) Match.
(d) Burning log.

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

5. What does Dick use beach gravel for?
(a) Foundation of cabin.
(b) Decoration outside Spike's cabin.
(c) For his garden paths.
(d) To fill his empty gas cans to use as weights.

6. What object does Dick place on the ice to let Babe know it is safe to land the plane on?
(a) Ram's horns.
(b) Yellow flag.
(c) Red flag.
(d) Oil drum.

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

8. What is Dick's conclusion after he first tests the draft in his new fireplace?
(a) It will be a working fireplace.
(b) The fireplace needs to be shorter.
(c) He has to start over.
(d) He has to adjust the flue.

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

10. What does Babe eat two bowls of when he visits Dick on January 9th?
(a) Sourdough dumpling soup.
(b) Sheep stew.
(c) Oatmeal.
(d) Beans.

11. In "Breakup", what does Dick accidentally set on fire?
(a) Moss roof.
(b) Canoe.
(c) Cache.
(d) Snowshoes.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Dick wrap around the legs of his cache to dissuade squirrels from climbing up?

2. What does Dick do with the litter he finds when he visits the hunters' tent camp in "Camp Meat"?

3. What does Babe's wife knit for Dick that Babe delivers on January 9th?

4. What does Dick call the rabbit he is tracking in early May?

5. How old is Dick when he begins his wilderness experience?

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