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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Moose hunting became a yearly tradition with Sidney's family, but the moose population began to thin due to wolves in the ___.
(a) 1940s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1960s.
(d) 1970s.

7. 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) Nose.
(b) Hooves.
(c) Heads.
(d) Ears.

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

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

10. In what year was Edwin Simon born?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1915.
(c) 1898.
(d) 1921.

11. Whose life saving advice about two fires helped Sidney survive overnight in the cold when he got lost while tracking and trapping a marten?
(a) Charlie Swanson's.
(b) Edwin Simon's.
(c) Eklunta John's.
(d) James'.

12. Sidney was 18, and after exploring the former ___ he decided to hunt there.
(a) No Man's Land.
(b) Indian Land.
(c) Reservation Land.
(d) Homestead.

13. Jimmy died in _____.
(a) 1985
(b) 1987
(c) 1984
(d) 1983

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

15. On his month off from service to his government what elder traveled with Sidney on his hunting trip for a "last hunt?"
(a) Chief John.
(b) Oldman.
(c) Golchik.
(d) Chief Paul.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many wolves were killed during the re-balancing process described by Sidney in Chapter 22 "Koyukuk Wolves?"

2. Over how many years, after finding the dead moose killed by wolves, were wolves killed to re-balance the wildlife population?

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

4. Who found several moose killed by wolves with most of the meat barely touched?

5. Sidney learned an instrument and made himself a guitar and ___.

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