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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. Over how many years, after finding the dead moose killed by wolves, were wolves killed to re-balance the wildlife population?
(a) 2.
(b) 4.
(c) 5.
(d) 3.

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

3. 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'.

4. Sidney killed a moose for which one of his uncles, and this uncle brought his whole family to prepare the meat and the hide over several days?
(a) Hog River Johnny.
(b) Weasleheart.
(c) Chief Thomas.
(d) Chief Paul.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After his wife died in 1941, Jimmy married ____.

2. On the Fourth of July who surprisingly won the local canoe race?

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

4. On his month off from service to his government what elder traveled with Sidney on his hunting trip for a "last hunt?"

5. Sidney and his first wife divorced in ___.

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who was Herman Lerdahl?

3. What is the Koyukon Indian's attitude about animal spirits?

4. Who is Johnny Oldman?

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

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

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

8. Who is Edwin Simon?

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

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

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