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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Paulsen say in Chapter 5 was almost like eating a snack food if you remembered the salt?
(a) Snake.
(b) Ants.
(c) Grasshoppers.
(d) Grub worms.

2. What did the Lewis and Clark expedition get from drinking bad water?
(a) Cholera.
(b) Giardiasis.
(c) Amoebiasis.
(d) Dysentery.

3. After his experience killing a buck with a bow when he was 15, what did Paulsen always carry with him when he went hunting?
(a) Chain.
(b) Raincoat.
(c) 15-foot piece of rope.
(d) Tarp.

4. In Chapter 5, what did Paulsen say made the best sauce?
(a) Mushrooms.
(b) Hunger.
(c) Greens.
(d) Berries.

5. After Paulsen went a few days without making a kill, what did he kill?
(a) Gray squirrel.
(b) Gopher.
(c) Red Squirrel.
(d) Rabbit.

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. In Chapter 5, where did Paulsen say that during his first Iditarod he stopped at a village early in the day?

3. What did the people build who used the technique that Paulsen recommended for making a cooking pot?

4. How long did it take Paulsen to start a fire with a hatchet and a rock?

5. How did Brian feel when he got his first hit in the excerpt at the beginning of Chapter 6?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. What could be done with small dried bones?

4. How did Paulsen use plank cooking?

5. What did Paulsen say about being hungry and British sailors in the old days of sailing ships?

6. How did Paulsen describe his first experience hunting with his homemade bow and arrows?

7. How did Paulsen work to learn how to start a fire with a hatchet and a rock?

8. What did Paulsen find amazing about chickadees?

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

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

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