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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. From what animal would Native Americans eat the intestines?

2. Where did Paulsen train for his first Iditarod?

3. On Friday nights in Chapter 4, where did Paulsen work on Friday nights?

4. How big was the snapping turtle that Paulsen's dogs ran over one day in Chapter 5?

5. When it got dark the night Paulsen shot his first buck with a bow when he was 15, where did he set up camp?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did Paulsen choose three-bladed broadheads for his arrows?

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

3. What did Paulsen say about trapping in Chapter 4?

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

5. 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?

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

7. How did Paulsen use plank cooking?

8. What did Paulsen see a young boy about six eating at a village along the Bering Sea during his first Iditarod?

9. What did Paulsen do with the buck he shot when he was 15 when he got home?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Why did Paulsen write Guts?

Essay Topic 2

Paulsen provides some recipes and ways to cook in the wilderness. What did Paulsen learn about cooking in the wild? Why was cooking such a joy in the wild?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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