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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 second recipe that Paulsen provided in Chapter 6?

2. After drinking the broth of a stew, what should you eat if you cooked a small animal or fish?

3. What would you need to seal a handmade pot for cooking?

4. Where did Paulsen say that he got his first bow-killed deer in Chapter 4?

5. What did Paulsen say could be used to make a pot?

Short Essay Questions

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. How did Paulsen recommend heating water?

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

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Paulsen found the chickadee to be an amazing creature. Why was Paulsen fascinated by the chickadee? What lessons did he think could be learned from the chickadee?

Essay Topic 2

Point of view determines what readers know about events and characters. What is the point of the view of the book? How does the point of view influence what readers know about events and people?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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