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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. After how many months of service to his government did Sidney take a month off to go hunting?

2. "Siwashing out" means living off the land without what?

3. In his sixties in the 1980s, Sidney went trapping for the highly sought lynx fur and earned how much money selling them?

4. According to Sidney, when did Edwin Simon experience and use things like motorboats, oil, gas and buying food at trading posts?

5. In 1934 Jimmy married ___.

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

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

6. Who is Johnny Oldman?

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

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

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sidney spends time at the Anvik Mission. During his young life he spends time at several more missions. How did these experiences shape his life in regard to his education and his willingness to help others as a child, as a young man, and as an older adult?

Essay Topic 2

How does Sidney learn to become a carpenter and end up doing work in Galena? During this time the family builds a salmon fishing business and then a salmon smokehouse. How does each business come about and why does Sidney sell the fishing business at some point?

Essay Topic 3

In one chapter, Sidney talks about Edwin Simon and how his "three lives" embody the changes in the Athapaskan culture. Who are the Athapaskan? Who is Edwin Simon? What are these "three lives," and when do they occur? How do they embody the changes in the Athapaskan culture?

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