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Trivia related to vocabulary and comprehension of the book, The Voyageurs Paddle

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1
What is a Voyageur?
Someone long ago who went on long voyages
A person employed to carry goods and furs to trade
Someone who makes canoes
2
The Rendezvous is for
Trading goods for furs
Having a party
A gathering of hunters
3
What is this a picture of?
The trading post
A native camp
A wooden castle
4
What is a Brigade?
A canoe making event
A group of canoes travelling together
An army travelling by canoe
5
Jacques dreamed of becoming a Voyageur because...
Voyageurs were thought of as the ultimate hero
They used special canoes
They made lots of money
6
Jacques was worried his father would not return home because
He might have returned to France
He could have been killed while hunting
A winter storm had frozen the waterways
7
In the book, we learned that the Natives helped Voyageurs by...
They showed them how to repair canoes
They helped them to find new streams and better paths
Both
8
"Metis" means
Someone from the bear clan
Someone from a foreign place
Someone of both French Canadian and Native Descent