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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 happens when Brown is tracking a fox at night?

2. In "Go and Ask the Mice", what happened to Stalking Wolf's friend when they were younger?

3. Why was Brown attacked by a dog when he was ten?

4. In "Quick Mud", where do Brown and Rick build a bridge?

5. What is tracking compared to in "The Ultimate Track"?

Short Essay Questions

1. What happens when the dogs get out of the pit in "Omen"?

2. How is Brown able to stand the cold during his rite of passage in "Cold Training"?

3. In "The Ultimate Track", how does Brown describe tracking?

4. Why are there wild dogs in Pine Barrens?

5. What happens when the wild dogs sneak up on Brown and Rick as they are celebrating finishing building their cabin?

6. How does Brown choose where to build the Good Medicine Cabin?

7. In "Chickadee Survival", why doesn't the storm threaten Brown?

8. How do the Boy Scout leaders try to prepare for the storm in "Chickadee Survival"?

9. Why does Stalking Wolf call the dogs "guardians" in "Omen"?

10. What two human rescues do Brown and Rick take part in in "Chickadee Survival"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What is bear smacking? Why does Brown try smacking a bear? What is symbolic about the results of this attempt?

Essay Topic 2

What role do dogs play in this novel? Consider the wild dogs, police dogs and other dogs. How are they symbolic? How are they characters?

Essay Topic 3

Rick and Brown collect skulls. What is symbolic about the skulls? How does this act bind the two in friendship? What happens to the skulls when Rick moves away?

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