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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Whose fourteen kids died of tuberculosis?

3. In 1934 Jimmy married ___.

4. On his month off from service to his government what elder traveled with Sidney on his hunting trip for a "last hunt?"

5. How many pounds did the moose weigh that Sidney shot while he and his family were on their boat?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Who is Edwin Simon?

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

4. What happened with Sidney and alcohol?

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

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

7. Who is Johnny Oldman?

8. 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?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In the first few chapters of the book Sidney describes his life in Koyukuk as a young child under the age of six. Explain the challenges Sidney faced at this time in his life, including his mother's death, getting help for his sick dad, and his habit of wandering off at a young age. Also discuss how Sidney deals with each challenge.

Essay Topic 2

Sidney reflects in the last chapter of the book about his life. What does Sidney reflect on in this last chapter and what do these reflections reveal about him, his family, and his willingness to help others become more than their circumstances in the Koyukuk?

Essay Topic 3

Chapter 17 is mostly about gold in Koyukuk. Explain how Koyukuk gold not only affected the people of Koyukuk in general but also how it affected the lives, specifically of Sidney, Jimmy, and their Dad.

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