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

2. In what year did the mining company bring in a gold mining dredge and Sidney worked as foreman?
(a) 1955.
(b) 1975.
(c) 1965.
(d) 1958.

3. The Galena AFB turned this small village of 35 into a city of ____.
(a) 3,000.
(b) 10,000.
(c) 5,000.
(d) 4,000.

4. How many wolves were killed during the re-balancing process described by Sidney in Chapter 22 "Koyukuk Wolves?"
(a) 350.
(b) 600.
(c) 300.
(d) 400.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 18 "Sled Dogs," Sidney described taking his __ year old son Carl trapping.

2. Whose nickname was "Huslia Hustler" for always winning dog sled races?

3. Charlie amazed Sidney by felling a moose from __ yards away.

4. According to details in Chapter 23 "Booze," what can lead to blindness and death?

5. Who told Sidney about evidence of strangers and how the storyteller's dad and another tracked and killed the strangers?

Short Essay Questions

1. As described in Chapter 21, "Koyukuk Moose," what happened when Sidney's family was out hunting moose in their boat?

2. What happened in the story Golchik told Sidney about spearing a grizzly bear?

3. Why did Sidney address the Alaska Board of Education about paying for rural schools in areas with low population?

4. According to Chapter 13, "On Our Own," what happened one October when Jimmy was bear hunting and he tracked a bear to its den?

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

6. Who was Ben Derrick?

7. What happened with Sidney and alcohol?

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

9. What did Sidney do when he learned an instrument?

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

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