View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What family business did Sidney have to fight through the bureaucracy to make legal?
(a) Salmon smokehouse.
(b) Fur trading.
(c) Lynx trapping.
(d) Salmon fishing.

3. On his month off from service to his government what elder traveled with Sidney on his hunting trip for a "last hunt?"
(a) Oldman.
(b) Chief Paul.
(c) Chief John.
(d) Golchik.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Jimmy and Sidney name the 30 foot boat that they built together as described in Chapter 13 "On Our Own?"

2. According to Sidney, when did Edwin Simon experience and use things like motorboats, oil, gas and buying food at trading posts?

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

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did two Eskimos tell Sidney to cut off the hooves of a caribou when they came upon him dressing the caribou?

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

3. Who is Edwin Simon?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 803 words (approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample