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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. How long did it take Paulsen to start a fire with a hatchet and a rock?

2. What did Paulsen say in Chapter 6 that a person could use for bait if they did not eat it for themselves?

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

4. What was the first thing that a little boy in a village in Alaska offered Paulsen to eat in Chapter 5?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. 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?

4. What did Paulsen learn about hunger and eating?

5. What could be done with small dried bones?

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

7. How did Paulsen recommend heating water?

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

9. Why did Paulsen stop using guns to hunt?

10. What did Paulsen find amazing about chickadees?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

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 2

What moose attacks did Paulsen describe? What did those attacks reveal about the madness that seems to infect moose?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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