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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. Where do chickadees migrate?

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

3. In Chapter 5, how many days did Paulsen say that he went without a kill?

4. How would an animal be prepared for plank cooking?

5. When Paulsen was in the desert in Chapter 6, what was the only thing he had to eat for a day and a half?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Paulsen use plank cooking?

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

3. What did Paulsen learn about hunger and eating?

4. Why did Paulsen stop using guns to hunt?

5. How did an Apache show Paulsen how to catch rabbits, and what did Paulsen catch one time when he was following the Apache's instructions?

6. Where did Paulsen get the feathers for his first bow, and what considerations did he have to make when getting feathers?

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

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

9. What was the key to cooking meat on a spit?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did Paulsen decide that he preferred hunting with a bow rather than a gun? How did he make that decision?

Essay Topic 2

Point of view determines what readers know about events and characters. What is the point of the view of the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 3

Genre is a means of classifying a piece of literature. What is the genre of Guts and why?

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