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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, how many days did Paulsen say that he went without a kill?

2. In Chapter 5, what did Paulsen say made the best sauce?

3. What would you use to hold meat on a plank to cook it?

4. What did Paulsen take to eat the first time he went hunting with his homemade bow?

5. During Paulsen's first hunt with his homemade bow, how many arrows did he shoot at a grouse and miss?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What did Paulsen learn about hunger and eating?

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

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

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 recommend heating water?

8. What could be done with small dried bones?

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

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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

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