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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 19, Beaver and Chapter 20, Snarling Grizzly Bears.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After their dad retired from trapping, at what ages did Jimmy and Sidney go trapping on their own?
(a) 15 and 16.
(b) 14 and 16.
(c) 16 and 17.
(d) 13 and 16.

2. Sidney's last year of formal schooling as a kid was what grade?
(a) Fourth.
(b) Fifth.
(c) Third.
(d) Sixth.

3. Jimmy was sick on the trip to ___ with undiagnosed tuberculosis.
(a) Alatna.
(b) Bear Creek.
(c) Eklutna.
(d) Clear Creek.

4. In Alatna Kitty had a son named ___ who was Sidney's age.
(a) Gilbert.
(b) Abraham.
(c) Andrew.
(d) Carl.

5. It was ___ degrees when Sidney returned from checking his traps in sub-freezing temperatures at the Batza River.
(a) -75.
(b) -60.
(c) -78.
(d) -58.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the riverboat to Alatna, Sidney and his dad visited whose grave?

2. Sidney and his first wife divorced in ___.

3. Anna walked more than ___ miles through the tundra back home after her step-father's murder trial.

4. Sidney met his first wife at ____.

5. What did the census taker's guide die from?

(see the answer key)

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