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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 nothing to Storm?

2. What does Gary know was wrong of him to do?

3. Whose blood would begin to teach Paulsen?

4. What did Paulsen learn from that night?

5. What was Gary's ignorance based on?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do young dogs need to be taken on training runs?

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

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

4. What had Gary believed before he was forty?

5. Why were people driven out of the house of Gary's neighbor?

6. What excited Gary's dogs?

7. Why didn't Paulsen kill the bear?

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

9. What did Paulsen not know about dog feed?

10. What does Gary define as "Bone Wars"?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Discuss dog sledding in the media and popular culture. What seems to be the social attitude towards dog sledding? How does this vary by the environment in which these people reside?

Essay Topic 2

Discuss the domestication of animals to serve a purpose for humanity. Suggest purposes for each domesticated animal, and how it might have been tamed in the first place. How have these needs changed throughout history, and to what major purpose to most domesticated animals serve today? What are some notable exceptions to this? Explain.

Essay Topic 3

Paulsen discusses how one of his lead dogs was more often than not a fighter and how he initially thought this was a quality of all sled dogs. Although he admits he was wrong, for that situation, he offers no explanation as to how he found out it was a wrong insight. Provide an explanation as to what happened to convince him that this was an undesirable characteristic.

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