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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. How much did a pilot charge to rescue Paulsen and his dogs when Paulsen was trapped on the ice in Chapter 1?

2. How old was the man that Paulsen went to help at a ranch northeast of Colorado Springs?

3. In Chapter 3, how often were Paulsen's dogs coated with mosquito repellent?

4. Where had Paulsen spent time in the wilderness woods?

5. Where did Paulsen remember canoeing with another man in Chapter 3?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does Paulsen remember being attacked by, and what was the worst in Chapter 2?

2. What was Paulsen's least favorite job, and why did he do it anyway?

3. On page 34, how often had Paulsen seen moose and why had he not seen them often?

4. What did Paulsen remember seeing after the deer killed a boy?

5. Where did Paulsen live, and what was the ambulance service like when he became a volunteer ambulance driver?

6. Who was Libby Riddles and how did she win the Iditarod?

7. What happened when Paulsen was stuck on the ice with his sled dogs and gear in Chapter 1?

8. What happened in the excerpt from Hatchet at the beginning of Chapter 1?

9. What had Paulsen seen and heard about the viciousness of mosquitoes?

10. What was the target of the first moose that Paulsen saw, and how did the moose demolish its target?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did Paulsen write Guts?

Essay Topic 2

What process did Paulsen have to go through in order to be able to start a fire with a hatchet and a rock? What did the experience reveal about persistence?

Essay Topic 3

Point of view determines what readers know about events and characters. What is the point of the view of the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

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