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

2. Who used the technique that Paulsen recommended for making a cooking pot?

3. How hot did Paulsen say that granite needed to be for a stew?

4. What would you need to seal a handmade pot for cooking?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Why did Paulsen choose three-bladed broadheads for his arrows?

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

4. What was the one thing that Paulsen could not eat and keep down?

5. Why did Paulsen's dogs take off at a dead run when he stopped at a village along the Bering Sea while he was running his first Iditarod?

6. How did Paulsen recommend heating water?

7. How did Paulsen use plank cooking?

8. What did Paulsen find amazing about chickadees?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What moose attacks did Paulsen describe? What did those attacks reveal about the madness that seems to infect moose?

Essay Topic 2

Paulsen saw a boy killed in a state park. How was a boy killed in a state park? What sign was near the boy’s body after he died? What was ironic about the attack?

Essay Topic 3

Why did Paulsen train dogs to pull a sled? Why did he want to race in the Iditarod with his dogs?

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