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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What did the moose charge in Chapter 2?
2. How old was the man that Paulsen went to help at a ranch northeast of Colorado Springs?
3. What was Paulsen in when he encountered a moose after the incident with the moose and a truck in Chapter 2?
4. How old was Paulsen when he saw a passenger plane ditch in the Pacific?
5. How was Paulsen injured in the moose attack at the end of Chapter 2?
Short Essay Questions
1. Which mosquitoes bite, and how many people can one mosquito infect?
2. Where did Paulsen live, and what was the ambulance service like when he became a volunteer ambulance driver?
3. What did Paulsen say about the heart attack victims he saw during his first year as an ambulance volunteer in Chapter 1?
4. What was the worst incident that Paulsen had with mosquitoes?
5. What had Paulsen seen and heard about the viciousness of mosquitoes?
6. On page 34, how often had Paulsen seen moose and why had he not seen them often?
7. In Chapter 2, what did Paulsen remember about a canoe being attacked by a moose?
8. Where was Paulsen when he saw a deer kill a boy, and how did he describe the attack?
9. What did Paulsen remember seeing after the deer killed a boy?
10. Why are mosquitoes so deadly?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Genre is a means of classifying a piece of literature. What is the genre of Guts and why?
Essay Topic 2
Paulsen once worked as a volunteer for an ambulance service. Why was Paulsen unable to save or help very many people? What did the job reveal about futility?
Essay Topic 3
In the Brian books, he suffered attacks from mosquitoes. Why did Paulsen say that mosquitoes were the most deadly creatures to man? What dangers were there because of mosquitoes, especially in warm climates?
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