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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. "Siwashing out" means living off the land without what?
(a) Equipment.
(b) Dogs.
(c) Other People.
(d) Half breeds.

2. According to Sidney, when did Edwin Simon experience and use things like motorboats, oil, gas and buying food at trading posts?
(a) 1930-1960.
(b) 1915-1940.
(c) 1900-1925.
(d) 1960-1979.

3. According to details in Chapter 23 "Booze," what can lead to blindness and death?
(a) Alcohol.
(b) Bad water.
(c) Bad Liquor.
(d) Bad fish.

4. The Galena AFB turned this small village of 35 into a city of ____.
(a) 5,000.
(b) 4,000.
(c) 3,000.
(d) 10,000.

5. In what year did Sidney and Charlie, his dad's partner, go upstream looking for better trapping prospects and find moose tracks?
(a) 1915.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1937.
(d) 1935.

6. Sidney met his first wife at ____.
(a) Nenana.
(b) Cutoff.
(c) Tanana.
(d) Koyukuk Station.

7. After how many months of service to his government did Sidney take a month off to go hunting?
(a) 14.
(b) 17.
(c) 12.
(d) 18.

8. In 1941 Sidney tried to join the ___.
(a) Navy.
(b) Army.
(c) Coast Guard.
(d) Air Force.

9. When Jimmy got married in 1934, he went to live with his wife's family where?
(a) Kateel.
(b) Anchorage.
(c) Nulato.
(d) Cutoff.

10. In what year did Sidney quit drinking?
(a) 1965.
(b) 1962.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1958.

11. In 1934 Jimmy married ___.
(a) Jenny.
(b) Celia.
(c) Angela.
(d) Marion.

12. Who flew Sidney's pregnant wife to the hospital after the dog sled accident?
(a) John.
(b) Ben.
(c) Herman.
(d) Cosmos.

13. After his wife died in 1941, Jimmy married ____.
(a) Marion.
(b) Flora.
(c) Celia.
(d) Jenny.

14. What did Jimmy and Sidney name the 30 foot boat that they built together as described in Chapter 13 "On Our Own?"
(a) The Koyukuk.
(b) The Ark.
(c) The Boat.
(d) The Vixen.

15. Sidney learned an instrument and made himself a guitar and ___.
(a) A violin.
(b) A tamborine.
(c) Fiddle.
(d) Drums.

Short Answer Questions

1. On the way to ___ Sidney and his pregnant wife had a sledding accident and she was flown to the hospital.

2. How did Weaselheart kill passive beavers with his wife's help?

3. In 1939 Sidney and Jimmy built a ___ foot boat.

4. Who is the Koyukon elder Sidney visited in the hospital who talked about letting the weak and the sick die so only the strong survived?

5. Moose hunting became a yearly tradition with Sidney's family, but the moose population began to thin due to wolves in the ___.

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