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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 was the second recipe that Paulsen provided in Chapter 6?
(a) Fish or Meat Stew.
(b) Trail mix.
(c) Porridge with berries.
(d) Dried meat.

2. What did Paulsen say could be used to make a pot?
(a) Willow leaves.
(b) Green birch bark.
(c) Log.
(d) Reeds.

3. What time did Paulsen get home when he was 15 and had to drag his first bow-killed buck home?
(a) Just around 1 a.m.
(b) 10 p.m.
(c) Well after midnight.
(d) 11 p.m.

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

5. What would you use to hold meat on a plank to cook it?
(a) Willow branches.
(b) Stones.
(c) Wooden pegs.
(d) Sticks.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. During Paulsen's first hunt with his homemade bow, how many arrows did he shoot at a grouse and miss?

3. After buying broadheads in Chapter 4, what type of shafts did Paulsen buy?

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

5. What did Paulsen say most people considered it if they had to actually cook a meal?

Short Essay Questions

1. What problems did Paulsen have when he shot a buck in a swamp?

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

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

4. When did Paulsen start hitting game and targets with his homemade bow and arrows?

5. How did Paulsen say that as hunger increased, the diet widened?

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

7. Why did Paulsen stop using guns to hunt?

8. Why did Paulsen change his mind about eating the guts of animals?

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

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

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