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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 did Paulsen say most people considered it if they had to actually cook a meal?

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

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

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

5. How many small fish did Paulsen say in Chapter 5, he would have to eat to satisfy his hunger?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How did Paulsen recommend heating water?

4. How did Paulsen prepare fish and game for making a stew?

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

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

7. What could be done with small dried bones?

8. Why could Paulsen not afford to buy his first bow?

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

10. 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?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Paulsen once worked as a volunteer for an ambulance service. Why was Paulsen unable to save or help very many people? What did the job reveal about futility?

Essay Topic 2

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

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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