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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. When Paulsen stopped at a village during his first Iditarod, what did his dogs smell that made them take off at a run?
(a) Dead fish.
(b) Dead polar bear.
(c) Dead walrus.
(d) Dead seal.

2. What was the first thing that a little boy in a village in Alaska offered Paulsen to eat in Chapter 5?
(a) Blood from a seal.
(b) Blubber from a seal.
(c) Entrails from a walrus.
(d) Entrails from a seal.

3. When did people live like Brian did in Paulsen's books?
(a) 2,000 to 3,000 B.C.
(b) 10,000 to 12,000 B.C.
(c) 30,000 to 50,000 B.C.
(d) Prehistoric times.

4. About how old was the boy that offered Paulsen things to eat in an Alaskan village in Chapter 5?
(a) 7.
(b) 8.
(c) 5.
(d) 6.

5. Where did Paulsen say that he got his first bow-killed deer in Chapter 4?
(a) Behind an old barn.
(b) In a meadow.
(c) Abandoned homestead.
(d) Thicket.

Short Answer Questions

1. At what temperature can the chickadee survive?

2. In Chapter 5, what did Brian eat in the book excerpt at the beginning of Chapter 5?

3. In Chapter 5, how big did Paulsen say that some of the snapping turtles were?

4. How many small fish did Paulsen say in Chapter 5, he would have to eat to satisfy his hunger?

5. What was the principal food for men in the British navy in the old days of sailing ships?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Paulsen say about trapping in Chapter 4?

2. Where and how would Paulsen run his dogs in the forest in northern Minnesota?

3. What did Paulsen say about being hungry and British sailors in the old days of sailing ships?

4. How did the men on the Lewis and Clark expedition get their water and what happened because of the way they got their water?

5. How did Paulsen use plank cooking?

6. How would native peoples eat intestines from animals they killed?

7. What did Paulsen learn about hunger and eating?

8. What did Paulsen do with the buck he shot when he was 15 when he got home?

9. How did Paulsen prepare fish and game for making a stew?

10. What do most people think it means to rough it?

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