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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 did Sidney quit drinking?
(a) 1962.
(b) 1965.
(c) 1963.
(d) 1958.

2. In ___ Sidney went to work for a mining company, drilling at his dad's former claim.
(a) 1937.
(b) 1942.
(c) 1932.
(d) 1941.

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

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

5. Sidney and his first wife divorced in ___.
(a) 1958.
(b) 1947.
(c) 1935.
(d) 1944.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many wolves were killed during the re-balancing process described by Sidney in Chapter 22 "Koyukuk Wolves?"

2. The Galena AFB turned this small village of 35 into a city of ____.

3. 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?

4. Sidney killed a moose for which one of his uncles, and this uncle brought his whole family to prepare the meat and the hide over several days?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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