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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. In Chapter 4, how many hours would Paulsen have had to work setting pins in a bowling alley to afford a $30 bow?
2. In Chapter 5, what was the second thing that a little boy in a village in Alaska offered Paulsen to eat?
3. What would you use to hold meat on a plank to cook it?
4. How much could Paulsen sell a snowshoe rabbit for in Chapter 4?
5. How hot did Paulsen say that granite needed to be for a stew?
Short Essay Questions
1. How did Paulsen say that as hunger increased, the diet widened?
2. How did the men on the Lewis and Clark expedition get their water and what happened because of the way they got their water?
3. What did Paulsen say about being hungry and British sailors in the old days of sailing ships?
4. 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?
5. Where and how would Paulsen run his dogs in the forest in northern Minnesota?
6. What did Paulsen learn about hunger and eating?
7. Why did Paulsen stop using guns to hunt?
8. What do most people think it means to rough it?
9. How did Paulsen describe his first experience hunting with his homemade bow and arrows?
10. Why did Paulsen's dogs take off at a dead run when he stopped at a village along the Bering Sea while he was running his first Iditarod?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
How did Paulsen learn to survive in the wilderness? What role did knowledge and learning play in surviving in the wilderness?
Essay Topic 2
Paulsen saw a boy killed in a state park. How was a boy killed in a state park? What sign was near the boy’s body after he died? What was ironic about the attack?
Essay Topic 3
Why did Paulsen decide that he preferred hunting with a bow rather than a gun? How did he make that decision?
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