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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 10 - 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the name of Crazy Pete's goose?
(a) Anna.
(b) Joyce.
(c) Matilda.
(d) Henrietta.

2. How long ago does Natalie Watkins say she came to Alaska?
(a) 10 years ago.
(b) 16 years ago.
(c) 20 years ago.
(d) 5 years ago.

3. What is Leni's last name?
(a) Allbright.
(b) Watkins.
(c) Golliher.
(d) Walker.

4. In what month does Chapter 8 begin?
(a) December.
(b) September.
(c) January.
(d) November.

5. To whom is the following quote from the novel's opening credited? "Nature never deceives us; it is always we who deceive ourselves" (6).
(a) Henry David Thoreau.
(b) Edgar Allan Poe.
(c) John Muir.
(d) Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where in Alaska do Leni and her family arrive to take the ferry to their new home?

2. What animal(s) attack the animals at Leni's family's homestead in Chapter 10?

3. Where do Leni's parents buy beer when they camp on the Spit in Chapter 3?

4. How does Matthew's mother die in Chapter 8?

5. What does Large Marge tell Ernt he is going to go and do until spring in Chapter 11?

(see the answer key)

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