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

2. Moose hunting became a yearly tradition with Sidney's family, but the moose population began to thin due to wolves in the ___.
(a) 1960s.
(b) 1950s.
(c) 1940s.
(d) 1970s.

3. Who found several moose killed by wolves with most of the meat barely touched?
(a) Donald Stickman.
(b) Charlie Evans.
(c) Charlie Swanson.
(d) Ben Derrick.

4. Sidney met his first wife at ____.
(a) Koyukuk Station.
(b) Cutoff.
(c) Tanana.
(d) Nenana.

5. Whose nickname was "Huslia Hustler" for always winning dog sled races?
(a) Jimmy.
(b) Sidney.
(c) Charlie.
(d) Hog River Johnny.

Short Answer Questions

1. In 1934 Jimmy married ___.

2. The Koyukon rituals for animal spirits included keeping the spirits happy and not letting them ___.

3. Jimmy died in _____.

4. When did Edwin Simon live in permanent housing with electricity, running water, and appliances?

5. In his sixties in the 1980s, Sidney went trapping for the highly sought lynx fur and earned how much money selling them?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. Who is Edwin Simon?

4. After Donald Stickman found 12 moose killed by wolves, how was the wolf population "controlled?"

5. 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?

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

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

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

9. Who was Herman Lerdahl?

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

(see the answer keys)

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