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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 5, what was the second thing that a little boy in a village in Alaska offered Paulsen to eat?

2. What type of bones do not have marrow?

3. In Chapter 5, how many days did Paulsen say that he went without a kill?

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

5. In Chapter 5, how many grouse did Paulsen say that it took to satisfy his hunger?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Paulsen say that a person could make a pot for cooking when in the wilderness?

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. How did Paulsen use plank cooking?

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

5. What did Paulsen say about the first game he shot with a rifle?

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

7. What could be done with small dried bones?

8. 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?

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

10. What did Paulsen learn about hunger and eating?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

Genre is a means of classifying a piece of literature. What is the genre of Guts and why?

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