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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. After drinking the broth of a stew, what should you eat if you cooked a small animal or fish?
(a) Everything except the liver.
(b) Everything except the kidneys.
(c) Everything.
(d) Everything except the brains.

2. What type of wood did Paulsen use for his first bow?
(a) Lemon.
(b) Walnut.
(c) Cherry.
(d) Maple.

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

4. In Chapter 4, how much did the bullets cost per box for Paulsen's first rifle?
(a) 15 cents.
(b) 25 cents.
(c) 18 cents.
(d) 20 cents.

5. Where do chickadees migrate?
(a) Mexico.
(b) No where.
(c) Texas.
(d) New Mexico.

Short Answer Questions

1. At the beginning of Chapter 6, how did Paulsen say that a lot of people prepared a hot meal?

2. What did Paulsen say most people considered it if they had to actually cook a meal?

3. What was the principal food for men in the British navy in the old days of sailing ships?

4. In Chapter 5, how many days did Paulsen say that he went without a kill?

5. When spit cooking, what is the most important thing to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. What did Paulsen say about trapping in Chapter 4?

2. What do most people think it means to rough it?

3. 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?

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

5. Why did Paulsen change his mind about eating the guts of animals?

6. How did the men on the Lewis and Clark expedition get their water and what happened because of the way they got their water?

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

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

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

10. What problems did Paulsen have when he shot a buck in a swamp?

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