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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. In what year was Edwin Simon born?
(a) 1901.
(b) 1898.
(c) 1921.
(d) 1915.

2. 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) Golchik.
(c) Chief John.
(d) Chief Paul.

3. In his sixties in the 1980s, Sidney went trapping for the highly sought lynx fur and earned how much money selling them?
(a) $14,000.
(b) $12,000.
(c) $10,000.
(d) $16,000.

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

5. The Koyukon rituals for animal spirits included keeping the spirits happy and not letting them ___.
(a) Become angry.
(b) Get hurt.
(c) Die.
(d) Run free.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Athapaskan Indians traded everything with the white men they come in contact with except their ___ which were superior.

2. Who is the Koyukon elder Sidney visited in the hospital who talked about letting the weak and the sick die so only the strong survived?

3. Who trained the best sled dogs, all one quarter wolf?

4. In 1941 Sidney tried to join the ___.

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. What happened with Sidney and alcohol?

2. 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?

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

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

5. Who was Herman Lerdahl?

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

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

8. Who is Johnny Oldman?

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

10. How did tuberculosis affect Sidney's and his uncles' families?

(see the answer keys)

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