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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Paulsen say you might want to remove when making a fish or meat stew?
(a) Liver.
(b) Stomach and intestines.
(c) Heart.
(d) Kidneys.

2. What did Paulsen take to eat the first time he went hunting with his homemade bow?
(a) Egg salad sandwich and celery.
(b) Peanut butter sandwich and baked potato.
(c) Ham sandwich and carrots.
(d) Fried egg sandwich and boiled potato.

3. What did the Lewis and Clark expedition get from drinking bad water?
(a) Giardiasis.
(b) Dysentery.
(c) Cholera.
(d) Amoebiasis.

4. Who used the technique that Paulsen recommended for making a cooking pot?
(a) Jamaicans.
(b) Haitians.
(c) Native Americans.
(d) Cubans.

5. In Chapter 5, what did Brian eat in the book excerpt at the beginning of Chapter 5?
(a) Egg.
(b) Insect.
(c) Raw fish.
(d) Turtle.

6. When Paulsen was 15, how much would a butcher charge to cut a deer carcass and wrap it in packages?
(a) $5.
(b) $2.
(c) A 1/4 of the meat.
(d) An 1/8 of the meat.

7. At the end of a long voyage in the old days of sailing ships, how much might a sailor pay for a rat?
(a) 10 days' wages.
(b) A week's wages.
(c) Month's wages.
(d) 2 days' wages.

8. How big was the snapping turtle that Paulsen's dogs ran over one day in Chapter 5?
(a) 35 pounds.
(b) About 40 pounds.
(c) Around 30 pounds.
(d) 45 pounds.

9. Where did Paulsen train for his first Iditarod?
(a) Western Canada.
(b) Southern Alaska.
(c) Northern Minnesota.
(d) Southern Canada.

10. How old was the arrowhead that Paulsen said he got for Christmas in Chapter 4?
(a) 1748.
(b) 1813.
(c) 500 B.C.
(d) 300 B.C.

11. In Chapter 4, what type of rifle did Paulsen remember using to kill a deer?
(a) Remington.
(b) Browning.
(c) Colt.
(d) Hawken.

12. The year that Paulsen was 15, what was the weather like that fall?
(a) Cold and icy.
(b) Cold and rainy.
(c) Foggy and cool.
(d) Clear and sunny.

13. How long did Paulsen say that water needed to be boiled before drinking?
(a) 15 minutes.
(b) 20 minutes.
(c) 30 minutes.
(d) 25 minutes.

14. When Paulsen was in the desert in Chapter 6, what was the only thing he had to eat for a day and a half?
(a) 2 lizards.
(b) A turtle.
(c) A iguana.
(d) Beetles.

15. What was the pull weight of Paulsen's Bear Cub bow in Chapter 4?
(a) 40 pounds.
(b) 45 pounds.
(c) 50 pounds.
(d) 30 pounds.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Chapter 4, what did Paulsen pay for broadheads?

2. What time did Paulsen get home when he was 15 and had to drag his first bow-killed buck home?

3. What type of cooking did Paulsen not recommend?

4. What did a man break when cross country skiiing in the dead of winter that led to his death?

5. When spit cooking, what is the most important thing to do?

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