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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who told Sidney about evidence of strangers and how the storyteller's dad and another tracked and killed the strangers?
(a) Weasleheart.
(b) Sakeroni.
(c) Young Tobey.
(d) Hog River Johnny.

2. In what year was Sidney 18?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1933.
(c) 1942.
(d) 1938.

3. Who trained the best sled dogs, all one quarter wolf?
(a) Charlie.
(b) Donald.
(c) Ezra.
(d) Ben.

4. On the Fourth of July who surprisingly won the local canoe race?
(a) Ezra.
(b) Sidney.
(c) Jimmy.
(d) Homer.

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

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

7. Following survival advice, Sidney described how he built one fire to melt the snow, dry green branches and __.
(a) Bare the ground.
(b) Cook food.
(c) Keep him warm.
(d) Keep animals away.

8. 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?
(a) Old Mama.
(b) Vhief Paul.
(c) Johnny Oldman.
(d) His dad.

9. Sidney's first wife's name was __.
(a) Celia.
(b) Marion.
(c) Jenny.
(d) Angela.

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

11. Instead of letting Sidney enlist in 1941, the government sent him to ___ to work as a sheet metal worker.
(a) Anchorage.
(b) Fort Richardson.
(c) Fort Nulato.
(d) Nome.

12. In what year did Sidney have heart trouble and a triple bypass?
(a) 1980.
(b) 1979.
(c) 1982.
(d) 1978.

13. What was the name of Weaselheart's wife who helped him kill beaver?
(a) Susie.
(b) Josie.
(c) Marion.
(d) Ada.

14. In what year did Sidney's dad quit trapping and get a job as a jail guard?
(a) 1945.
(b) 1972.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1931.

15. In what year was Sidney appointed to the Alaska Board of Fish and Game?
(a) 1985.
(b) 1967.
(c) 1972.
(d) 1982.

Short Answer Questions

1. Two Eskimos came upon Sidney dressing caribou and advised him to cut off what part of the carcass since wolves subsisted off these long-lasting parts?

2. According to Sidney, when did Edwin Simon experience and use things like motorboats, oil, gas and buying food at trading posts?

3. What did Jimmy and Sidney name the 30 foot boat that they built together as described in Chapter 13 "On Our Own?"

4. The Koyukon rituals for animal spirits included keeping the spirits happy and not letting them ___.

5. Who flew Sidney's pregnant wife to the hospital after the dog sled accident?

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