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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. What boat did John Stickman salvage off the ice after the flood and return to Sidney and his family?
(a) Sidney's boat.
(b) The Ark.
(c) The Vixen.
(d) The Koyukuk.

2. In 1939 Sidney and Jimmy built a ___ foot boat.
(a) 32.
(b) 30.
(c) 28.
(d) 45.

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

4. Sidney and Jimmy traveled back home from school on a steamboat with ___.
(a) Alice.
(b) Marion.
(c) Ada.
(d) Susie.

5. After Sidney and his siblings were reunited with their father, all the family came for a memorial ___ for Anna.
(a) Cremation.
(b) Potlatch.
(c) Funeral.
(d) Burial.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who told Sidney about evidence of strangers and how the storyteller's dad and another tracked and killed the strangers?

2. Children were not allowed outside when the temperature was below ___ degrees.

3. Sidney went to a potlatch where he heard a high language spoken by the tribal ___ and also learned about his status as a "Siwash."

4. Once Sidney's family safely arrived at their cabin, Sidney and his dad set out to replace supplies and equipment lost in the flood, leaving __ behind to pan for gold.

5. On Anna's walk home she opened her eyes one morning and found whose son watching her?

(see the answer key)

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