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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. In 1934 Sidney's dad went to the Alaska Pioneer Home in ___ because of failing health.
(a) Kateel.
(b) Nutalo.
(c) Sitka.
(d) Cutoff.

4. In 1939 Sidney and Jimmy built a ___ foot boat.
(a) 32.
(b) 28.
(c) 45.
(d) 30.

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

6. The Athapaskan Indians traded everything with the white men they come in contact with except their ___ which were superior.
(a) Tools.
(b) Weapons.
(c) Clothes.
(d) Food.

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

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

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

10. 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) James'.
(c) Eklunta John's.
(d) Edwin Simon's.

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

12. Which one of Sidney's sisters is mentioned in Chapter 23 "Booze" as dying from tuberculosis?
(a) Alice.
(b) Susie.
(c) Marion.
(d) Ada.

13. 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) Vhief Paul.
(b) His dad.
(c) Johnny Oldman.
(d) Old Mama.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 24 "Galena," who made fur clothes to help support their family?

2. Sidney and his first wife divorced in ___.

3. In what year did Sidney and Charlie, his dad's partner, go upstream looking for better trapping prospects and find moose tracks?

4. After their dad retired from trapping, at what ages did Jimmy and Sidney go trapping on their own?

5. Sidney's first wife's name was __.

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