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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. What was the name of Sidney's second wife?
(a) Celia.
(b) Marion.
(c) Angela.
(d) Jenny,

2. Following survival advice, Sidney described how he built one fire to melt the snow, dry green branches and __.
(a) Keep him warm.
(b) Cook food.
(c) Bare the ground.
(d) Keep animals away.

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

4. In what year did Sidney have heart trouble and a triple bypass?
(a) 1982.
(b) 1980.
(c) 1978.
(d) 1979.

5. In what year did Sidney and Charlie, his dad's partner, go upstream looking for better trapping prospects and find moose tracks?
(a) 1935.
(b) 1929.
(c) 1915.
(d) 1937.

Short Answer Questions

1. What family business did Sidney have to fight through the bureaucracy to make legal?

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

4. Sidney's eye was replaced with a glass eye after he injured it while doing what?

5. At what age did Sidney fight a boy for calling him a half breed dirty coward?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Who was Herman Lerdahl?

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

9. Who is Johnny Oldman?

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

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