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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where was the Indian from that told Sidney a story about how storyteller's dad and partner tracked and killed some strangers?
(a) Anchorage.
(b) Nulato.
(c) Cutoff.
(d) Kateel.

2. In Chapter 18 "Sled Dogs," Sidney described taking his __ year old son Carl trapping.
(a) 6.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 8.

3. How many pounds did the moose weigh that Sidney shot while he and his family were on their boat?
(a) 1,200.
(b) 1,00.
(c) 800.
(d) 900.

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

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

6. Who had five of their six kids die from tuberculosis?
(a) Sidney.
(b) Hog River Johnny.
(c) Weaselheart.
(d) Jimmy.

7. The Koyukon rituals for animal spirits included keeping the spirits happy and not letting them ___.
(a) Become angry.
(b) Run free.
(c) Get hurt.
(d) Die.

8. What family business did Sidney have to fight through the bureaucracy to make legal?
(a) Salmon smokehouse.
(b) Fur trading.
(c) Lynx trapping.
(d) Salmon fishing.

9. How old was the girl Sidney described as getting her clothes wet and when he offered her a blanket while her clothes dried by the fire he was stopped so she could get "strong?"
(a) 6 years old.
(b) 3 years old.
(c) 8 years old.
(d) 4 years old.

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

11. On the way to ___ Sidney and his pregnant wife had a sledding accident and she was flown to the hospital.
(a) Kateel.
(b) Bear Creek.
(c) Clear Creek.
(d) Cutoff.

12. Who found several moose killed by wolves with most of the meat barely touched?
(a) Donald Stickman.
(b) Ben Derrick.
(c) Charlie Swanson.
(d) Charlie Evans.

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

14. In what year did Jimmy tow fuel for military planes?
(a) 1943.
(b) 1941.
(c) 1945.
(d) 1942.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In what year was Edwin Simon born?

2. Which one of Sidney's sons mistook a wolf in a trap for a sled dog and let it go?

3. On his month off from service to his government what elder traveled with Sidney on his hunting trip for a "last hunt?"

4. Who usually won the local canoe race, according to Chapter 13 "On Our Own?"

5. 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?

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