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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 does Brian hope to observe on the lakes with his monocular?

2. How many hot meals will Brian eat a day?

3. Where on the lake does Brian believe he will find fish?

4. What is Brian's canoe made from?.

5. How many days did Brian survive in the wilderness with nothing but a hatchet?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Brian intend to keep up with his studies in the wilderness?

2. Why didn't Brian bring a compound bow?

3. How does Brian describe how a coyote hunted?

4. In a book published in the 1930s by the government, what did Brian learn about nutritional value and dangers of eating different types of animals and fish?

5. How do the Inuit hunt seal?

6. Describe the area where the Smallhorn's live.

7. Why wouldn't it have been easy for Brian to move constantly during his first wilderness experience?

8. What types of supplies did Brian bring to the wilderness?

9. How is the dog injured that Brian finds in Chapter 4?

10. What does Susan Smallhorn look like?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

In Chapter 7, Brian hunts a deer for a meal. Discuss the food that Brian and the dog eat, and their attitudes toward food.

Essay Topic 2

In Chapter 4, Brian is awakened by a sound. Discuss why it is so important for people and animals to be tuned to react to odd things in the wilderness.

Essay Topic 3

In Chapters 5 and 6, Brian deduces that the dog was injured by a bear. Discuss how Brian uses deductive reason to figure out how the dog was injured.

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