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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. Where did Paulsen train for his first Iditarod?

2. What was the name of a friend of Paulsen's who had a snapping turtle bite his right buttock cheek?

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

4. How old was Paulsen when he made his first bow?

5. In Chapter 5, why did Paulsen say that he could no longer winter in Northern Minnesota?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. When did Paulsen start hitting game and targets with his homemade bow and arrows?

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

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

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

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 describe his first experience hunting with his homemade bow and arrows?

8. What did Paulsen find amazing about chickadees?

9. What was the one thing that Paulsen could not eat and keep down?

10. Why did Paulsen stop using guns to hunt?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did Paulsen train dogs to pull a sled? Why did he want to race in the Iditarod with his dogs?

Essay Topic 2

Paulsen was attacked by a moose when he was running his dogs in the dark. What was the moose attack like? Why did Paulsen get so angry at the moose? How did Paulsen’s anger simmer for years? Would Paulsen have sought revenge for the attack if he could have?

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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