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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. In Chapter 4, what type of rifle did Paulsen remember using to kill a deer?
(a) Browning.
(b) Colt.
(c) Hawken.
(d) Remington.
2. At the beginning of Chapter 6, how did Paulsen say that a lot of people prepared a hot meal?
(a) Microwave.
(b) Skillet.
(c) Slow cooker.
(d) Grill.
3. What type of cooking did Paulsen not recommend?
(a) Spit cooking.
(b) Pit cooking.
(c) Stone cooking.
(d) Kiln cooking.
4. What was the first thing that a little boy in a village in Alaska offered Paulsen to eat in Chapter 5?
(a) Blood from a seal.
(b) Blubber from a seal.
(c) Entrails from a seal.
(d) Entrails from a walrus.
5. How long did it take Paulsen to start a fire with a hatchet and a rock?
(a) 5 hours.
(b) About 3 hours.
(c) More than 4 hours.
(d) 6 hours.
Short Answer Questions
1. In Chapter 5, what did Brian eat in the book excerpt at the beginning of Chapter 5?
2. When Paulsen was in the desert in Chapter 6, what was the only thing he had to eat for a day and a half?
3. Where do chickadees migrate?
4. In Chapter 5, how big did Paulsen say that some of the snapping turtles were?
5. What type of bones do not have marrow?
Short Essay Questions
1. What did Paulsen say about being hungry and British sailors in the old days of sailing ships?
2. How did Paulsen recommend heating water?
3. What did Paulsen do with the buck he shot when he was 15 when he got home?
4. What did Paulsen learn about hunger and eating?
5. What do most people think it means to rough it?
6. What problems did Paulsen have when he shot a buck in a swamp?
7. How did Paulsen say that a person could make a pot for cooking when in the wilderness?
8. How did Paulsen describe his first experience hunting with his homemade bow and arrows?
9. How did Paulsen use plank cooking?
10. Why could Paulsen not afford to buy his first bow?
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