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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. When did people live like Brian did in Paulsen's books?

2. When Paulsen was in the desert in Chapter 6, what was the only thing he had to eat for a day and a half?

3. Who used the technique that Paulsen recommended for making a cooking pot?

4. What was the second recipe that Paulsen provided in Chapter 6?

5. What type of cooking did Paulsen consider more of an accident than cooking?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

3. Why did Paulsen stop using guns to hunt?

4. Where did Paulsen get the feathers for his first bow, and what considerations did he have to make when getting feathers?

5. How did Paulsen describe his first experience hunting with his homemade bow and arrows?

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

7. 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?

8. How did Paulsen recommend heating water?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What moose attacks did Paulsen describe? What did those attacks reveal about the madness that seems to infect moose?

Essay Topic 2

Why did Paulsen write Guts?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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