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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. On the way to ___ Sidney and his pregnant wife had a sledding accident and she was flown to the hospital.
(a) Bear Creek.
(b) Cutoff.
(c) Kateel.
(d) Clear Creek.

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

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Sidney do with the green branches that he dried in one fire after he built a second fire, when he had to stay outside overnight in the cold?

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

3. How old was the girl Sidney described as getting her clothes wet and when he offered her a blanket while her clothes dried by the fire he was stopped so she could get "strong?"

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

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

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

2. Who was Ben Derrick?

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

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

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

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

7. In 1937 what happened after Sidney killed a moose for his uncle Hog River Johnny?

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

9. Who is Johnny Oldman?

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

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