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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. What was the first animal Paulsen killed with his homemade bow after practicing to get his aim right?
2. When Paulsen was 15, where was he when he shot a buck and it fell on him?
3. What did the Lewis and Clark expedition get from drinking bad water?
4. After buying broadheads in Chapter 4, what type of shafts did Paulsen buy?
5. When spit cooking, what is the most important thing to do?
Short Essay Questions
1. What was the one thing that Paulsen could not eat and keep down?
2. What problems did Paulsen have when he shot a buck in a swamp?
3. How did Paulsen prepare fish and game for making a stew?
4. What did Paulsen see a young boy about six eating at a village along the Bering Sea during his first Iditarod?
5. 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?
6. What did Paulsen find amazing about chickadees?
7. How did Paulsen use plank cooking?
8. Why did Paulsen stop using guns to hunt?
9. How did the men on the Lewis and Clark expedition get their water and what happened because of the way they got their water?
10. How did Paulsen say that a person could make a pot for cooking when in the wilderness?
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
Why did Paulsen sometimes hunt or fish out of season? Why was Paulsen grateful for the leniency of game wardens when he was a kid?
Essay Topic 3
Paulsen was on his own as a boy and had to provide for himself. Why did Paulsen have to work hard for everything he got? Why did he have to learn to make do with very little money and resources? Was Paulsen resourceful?
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