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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. How many moose killed by wolves were found in 1956 with the meat barely touched?
(a) 15.
(b) 8.
(c) 10.
(d) 12.

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

3. In what year was Sidney 18?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1938.
(c) 1933.
(d) 1942.

4. Charlie amazed Sidney by felling a moose from __ yards away.
(a) 200.
(b) 600.
(c) 500.
(d) 100.

5. At what age did Sidney fight a boy for calling him a half breed dirty coward?
(a) 16.
(b) 15.
(c) 12.
(d) 13.

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?"

2. Sidney met his first wife at ____.

3. In what year was Edwin Simon born?

4. Sidney's eye was replaced with a glass eye after he injured it while doing what?

5. In ___ Sidney went to work for a mining company, drilling at his dad's former claim.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What happened when Sidney explored the former No Man's Land?

3. 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?

4. Why was Sidney's dad at the Alaska Pioneer's Home and why did he leave?

5. Who is Edwin Simon?

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

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

8. Who is Johnny Oldman?

9. How did Sidney describe the killing of passive beavers by his uncle and his uncle's wife?

10. What happened when Sidney's dad dug for gold at Bear Creek?

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