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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 15, where was he when he shot a buck and it fell on him?

2. How long did Paulsen say that water needed to be boiled before drinking?

3. What was the first recipe that Paulsen recorded in Chapter 6?

4. What type of cooking did Paulsen consider more of an accident than cooking?

5. What was the worst piece of meat that Paulsen said he ever had in Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What did Paulsen see a young boy about six eating at a village along the Bering Sea during his first Iditarod?

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

5. How did Paulsen say that a person could make a pot for cooking when in the wilderness?

6. 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?

7. Why did Paulsen stop using guns to hunt?

8. How did Paulsen use plank cooking?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

How did Paulsen learn to survive in the wilderness? What role did knowledge and learning play in surviving in the wilderness?

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

Paulsen provides some recipes and ways to cook in the wilderness. What did Paulsen learn about cooking in the wild? Why was cooking such a joy in the wild?

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