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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is largely useless to sled dogs in dry food?
(a) The kibbles themselves.
(b) Both of these.
(c) Neither of these.
(d) The corn meal used as a base.

2. What is the primary difference between people and animals?
(a) People use fire.
(b) People use tools.
(c) People have opposable thumbs.
(d) All of these.

3. What happened to Storm?
(a) He urinated blood.
(b) He bled from his behind.
(c) Both of these.
(d) Neither of these.

4. What did Olaf like to fight about?
(a) All of these.
(b) Bones.
(c) Weather.
(d) Females.

5. What animal was Minnesota having a problem with?
(a) Moles.
(b) Marmots.
(c) Beavers.
(d) Rats.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal did Gary see defeat the wolves?

2. What did Paulsen learn from that night?

3. What was the difference between Columbia and Olaf?

4. What animals did the bears leave alone?

5. What was nothing to Storm?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the greatest paradox about understanding the woods?

2. What happened to Russel and Quincy that summer?

3. What kinds of preparations need to be done before Paulsen can go to sleep?

4. What would the grouse chicks do at first when mother called, and what happened when they didn't?

5. Why didn't Paulsen kill the bear?

6. What kind of personality did Olaf have and why was he liked in spite of it?

7. As writing didn't completely pay the bills, how did Paulsen make ends meet?

8. What do people do that lived through the "summer of terror" do when Hawk is on top of the woodpile?

9. Why didn't Gary put the deer out of her misery?

10. How does Gary frequently feel while running dogs?

(see the answer keys)

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