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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, how many hours would Paulsen have had to work setting pins in a bowling alley to afford a $30 bow?
(a) 115.
(b) 130.
(c) About 120.
(d) More than 100.

2. In Chapter 5, how many days did Paulsen say that he went without a kill?
(a) 5.
(b) 4.
(c) 3.
(d) 2.

3. Who used the technique that Paulsen recommended for making a cooking pot?
(a) Cubans.
(b) Jamaicans.
(c) Native Americans.
(d) Haitians.

4. What did Paulsen say in Chapter 6 that a person could use for bait if they did not eat it for themselves?
(a) Earthworm.
(b) Grub worm.
(c) Flies.
(d) Intestines.

5. What type of cooking did Paulsen consider more of an accident than cooking?
(a) Plank cooking.
(b) Pit cooking.
(c) Rock cooking.
(d) Spit cooking.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long did it take Paulsen spend looking around a lake in the north woods for a rock that would give off sparks when struck with a hatchet?

2. From what animal would Native Americans eat the intestines?

3. How long did Paulsen say that water needed to be boiled before drinking?

4. At the beginning of Chapter 6, what did Brian catch for food?

5. What type of branch did Paulsen say to choose to hold a cooking pot over the fire?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Paulsen stop using guns to hunt?

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

3. How would native peoples eat intestines from animals they killed?

4. How did Paulsen recommend heating water?

5. Why could Paulsen not afford to buy his first bow?

6. How did Paulsen say that as hunger increased, the diet widened?

7. How did Paulsen prepare fish and game for making a stew?

8. How did Paulsen use plank cooking?

9. Where and how would Paulsen run his dogs in the forest in northern Minnesota?

10. 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?

(see the answer keys)

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