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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Sidney's eye was replaced with a glass eye after he injured it while doing what?
(a) Reparing an engine.
(b) Driving a dog sled.
(c) Chopping Wood.
(d) Fixing a trap.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Athapaskan Indians traded everything with the white men they come in contact with except their ___ which were superior.

2. In what year did Sidney have heart trouble and a triple bypass?

3. Instead of letting Sidney enlist in 1941, the government sent him to ___ to work as a sheet metal worker.

4. Sidney was 18, and after exploring the former ___ he decided to hunt there.

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did publishers change the ages of Sidney and his siblings at the time of Anna's death in both Sidney's and Jimmy's autobiographies?

2. How did tuberculosis affect Sidney's and his uncles' families?

3. What happened when Sidney and his dad's partner, Charlie went upstream looking for better trapping prospects in 1929?

4. In 1937 what happened after Sidney killed a moose for his uncle Hog River Johnny?

5. What happened when Sidney went to enlist in the army after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941?

6. Who is Edwin Simon?

7. What happened when Sidney and Jimmy went beaver hunting in the mid-1930s?

8. Who was Herman Lerdahl?

9. Who was Ben Derrick?

10. According to Chapter 16, "Siwash," what did Sidney do after he got lost while tracking and trapping a marten?

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