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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When did Edwin Simon live in permanent housing with electricity, running water, and appliances?
(a) 1945-1967.
(b) 1960-1979.
(c) 1950-1975.
(d) 1962-1987.

2. Whose fourteen kids died of tuberculosis?
(a) Weasleheart's.
(b) Hog River Johnny's.
(c) Sidney's.
(d) Jimmy's.

3. In his sixties in the 1980s, Sidney went trapping for the highly sought lynx fur and earned how much money selling them?
(a) $10,000.
(b) $14,000.
(c) $16,000.
(d) $12,000.

4. In Chapter 24 "Galena," who made fur clothes to help support their family?
(a) Sophy.
(b) Celia.
(c) Angela.
(d) Old Mama.

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

6. What was the name of Sidney's second wife?
(a) Angela.
(b) Celia.
(c) Marion.
(d) Jenny,

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

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

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

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

11. 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?
(a) Ears.
(b) Heads.
(c) Hooves.
(d) Nose.

12. Sidney killed a moose for which one of his uncles, and this uncle brought his whole family to prepare the meat and the hide over several days?
(a) Chief Paul.
(b) Hog River Johnny.
(c) Chief Thomas.
(d) Weasleheart.

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

14. Which one of Sidney's sons mistook a wolf in a trap for a sled dog and let it go?
(a) Arnold.
(b) Carl.
(c) Caleb.
(d) Gilbert.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sidney do with the green branches that he dried in one fire after he built a second fire, when he had to stay outside overnight in the cold?

2. Who trained the best sled dogs, all one quarter wolf?

3. Which one of Sidney's sisters is mentioned in Chapter 23 "Booze" as dying from tuberculosis?

4. In 1934 Sidney's dad went to the Alaska Pioneer Home in ___ because of failing health.

5. Sidney and his first wife divorced in ___.

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