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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. What does Hao ask Hels to pay him in Chapter 3?
(a) What he pays Mei.
(b) What he paid Neils.
(c) What he pays Pauly.
(d) What he pays Henry.

2. What do Mei and Bee think of the food they eat that Neils has cooked in Chapter 3?
(a) It is mediocre.
(b) It is terrible.
(c) Neils never cooks food in Chapter 3.
(d) It is delicious.

3. What does Pauly tell Mei has happened to the crew since Hao left?
(a) They are angry.
(b) They are suspicious.
(c) They are starving.
(d) They are sad.

4. What do loggers use to clear the worst jams?
(a) Dynamite.
(b) Guns.
(c) Cars.
(d) Trains.

5. What is the most dangerous part of the logger's job?
(a) Cutting trees down.
(b) Sleeping outside with wild animals.
(c) Chopping trees into sections once they have been cut down.
(d) Log jams.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hels nail to the tree near where the person who dies in the log jam is buried?

2. In Chapter 3, what do some of Hels's workers tell him Pauly has been doing behind his back?

3. Who asks Mei for a story in Chapter 3 when Mei herself cannot sleep?

4. Why is Mei angry as the winter passes in Chapter 3?

5. Where does Hao say he learned the tradition he enacts along the burial of the logger who dies?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when Neils takes over the camp's kitchen?

2. What does Hao jokingly ask Hels for as a term of his returning to the camp?

3. What does Hao say when Hels comes to beg him to come back?

4. Why does Hels finally go and try to make amends with Hao?

5. What does Auntie Po leave at Pauly's grave?

6. In Part III, what story about Auntie Po does Mei tell Bee and Polly?

7. What does the crew do when they find Pauly's body?

8. Why does Bee get really angry at Mei for her Auntie Po stories in Part IV?

9. In Part IV, what event often requires cooks to follow a crew down a river?

10. In Part III, why does Mei become flustered when teaching Bee how to chop?

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