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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 kind of gun does Brian have?

2. What happens on day three of drying the heavy bows?

3. How does Brian prepare to skin a rabbit?

4. What does Brian practice on when he picks up his bow and arrows again?

5. What did the bear smell that brought it into Brian's camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens with Brian's second encounter with the skunk.

2. What happens the first time Brian doesn't make a clean kill?

3. Describe the noises that follow after Brian wakes in the middle of the night.

4. What repairs does Brian make to his shelter in Chapter 7?

5. What does Brian take with him and why when he goes looking for the wolves kill?

6. What is Brian's history with bears up until the point that he's attacked by one?

7. After the rain finally stops, what activities keep Brian bush that first day?

8. How does Brian finish with the rabbit skins in Chapter 5?

9. Describe the sporting goods store that Brian remembers near his home.

10. When Brian makes fish soup, how does he make and eat it?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss the significance of breaking of the firing pin. Be sure to address the need to have challenges for characters to overcome.

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the significance of having an imaginary conversation with someone when you're stranded. Overall, would it be helpful or a sign that things are getting bad?

Essay Topic 3

In the last paragraph in Chapter 2, the author writes, "always, always pay attention to what was happening." There is even added significance on one of the "always" through the use of italics. Explain the purpose of both this sentence and the added significance.

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