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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 animal does Sam find in "I Learn to Season My Food" when it escapes from his trap?

2. In "I Meet One of My Own Kind," what did an old lady want Sam to help her do?

3. What did Sam carve once that his teacher exhibited for parents' night at school?

4. In "I Hole Up in a Snowstorm," what does Sam say his father does for a living?

5. In what type of tree is Sam's tree home?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Sam get the first fish he caught cooked and learn how to start a fire?

2. How did Sam make a home on his mountain?

3. Why did Sam have trouble getting tannic acid to tan his deer hide and how did he finally get it in "Frightful Learns Her ABCs"?

4. In "The Old, Old Tree," how did Sam boil water and an egg?

5. Once Sam's home was done, what did he do on warm evenings?

6. What did a book that Sam read suggest to do to find edible plants?

7. When Sam left New York, what did he take with him?

8. Why did Sam think the fire warden came to his tree home area in "The First Man Who Was After Me"?

9. Who was Bando and how did he happen to be sleeping in the woods?

10. Why did Sam disagree with most people who said that trout were hard to catch?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Sam had experienced loneliness in the fall. Why didn't Sam experience loneliness in the winter?

Essay Topic 2

Several articles are written about a wild boy living in the woods near Delhi. Why does Sam worry about the accounts at first, and then he decides not to concern himself with the reports for now?

Essay Topic 3

Sam trusted Matt to not write about him. Was Sam wise to trust Matt?

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