stud
bud
Sign up
Log in
Home
Library
Explore
SAT
More
Woodsong Review Flashcards | StudBud
Explore
/
Woodsong Review
Woodsong Review
36 terms
·
StudBud Administration
·
46 plays
#Study for test
Flashcards
36 cards
F
Practice quiz
P
Host live
L
Questions
36
Answers
1
On day 15 of the race, Gary stays:
at an Eskimo boy's house.
at a man's barn because he can't stay in his cabin.
at the deserted Iditarod checkpoint.
in a tent with his dogs at Rainy pass.
2
Paulsen had to eat this instead of his meat patties for energy.
butter
dog food
fish
moose
3
Every part of Paulsen's novel seems necessary in order to:
argue for the protection of nature
to explain how dogs have personalities
to support his reasons
to tell why killing animals is wrong
4
Gary Paulsen uses this type of jargon in his nonfiction novel:
Eskimo slang
Alaskan language
Dog sled/musher terms
complex sentence syntax
5
Paulsen's purpose for writing this novel was:
to persuade
to present research findings
to inform
to entertain
6
Who was Hawk?
Sat on the grouse eggs until they hatched.
Would perch like a hawk.
All of the above.
A mean chicken who attacked the family cat.
7
Paulsen hallucinated about an eskimo when he got frost-bite during a 50-below zero run.
False
True
8
Who was Fred?
Became irritable when he was put on a diet.
Played a trick on Olaf during the "bone wars."
An "honest" dog who worked even when he was tired.
9
Paulsen hallucinates thinking that:
there is a bear chasing him.
the dogs are on fire.
they have finished the race.
10
Banties are mean, small chickens you can never get rid of, according to Gary's wife.
True
False
11
Who was Storm?
Became irritable when put on a diet and had to exercise.
Played a trick on Olaf during the "bone wars."
An "honest" dog who worked even when he was tired.
Sat on the grouse eggs until they hatched.
12
Storm liked to play tricks on Gary and bury his snowhook.
False
True
13
Who was Olaf?
An aggressive dog who wasn't smart.
Would fall asleep while running and fall over.
Sat on grouse eggs until they hatched.
A lead dog who was large and wolf-like.
14
Who was Wilson?
A female dog who challenged Gary's commands.
A race dog who snapped at Storm once.
An aggressive dog who wasn't smart.
Would fall asleep when he was running and fall over.
15
Paulsen ties his arm to the sled at the gorge because:
he wants to stay on the sled in case the dogs slip.
he had heard other mushers talk about doing this.
he thinks the dogs will lead him over the gorge.
he thinks he will lose his dogs.
16
The real race:
begins in Nome.
begins 30 miles out of town.
begins the next day.
17
The glowing light that made the dogs stop was coming from a ghost Gary saw in the woods.
False
True
18
When Gary reaches the Burn he sees:
an Eskimo man who points his team in the right direction.
Storm trying to go in the wrong direction.
Mushers going too fast and they fall.
an Eskimo boy who offers him a cookie.
19
Who was Obeah?
A lead dog who was large and wolf-like.
A female dog who challenged Gary's commands.
Would fall asleep when running and fall over.
An aggressive dog who wasn't smart.
20
Who was Cookie?
A lead dog who was large and wolf-like.
An aggressive dog who wasn't smart.
Would fall asleep when running and fall over.
A female dog who challenged Gary's commands.
21
Paulsen dedicated his book, Woodsong, to his sweet lead dog.
True
False
22
Paulsen learned that feeding his dogs raw meat and fat made them get fatter and meaner.
False
True
23
Storm died with a stick in his mouth to show Paulsen he was forgiven.
False
True
24
One of the rumors at Norton sound is about:
Someone had a foot amputated due to frostbite.
Somebody whose eyeballs froze and is blind.
Somebody who was attacked by a moose.
25
The burn is:
a dangerous place with boulders.
a stretch of broken country destroyed by fire.
an easy run through a river gorge.
26
Who was Columbia?
An aggressive dog who wasn't smart.
Became irritable when he was put on a diet.
Played a trick on Olaf during the "bone wars."
A lead dog who was large and wolf-like.
27
Paulsen didn't accept a beer from a man at one of the checkpoints because:
he heard drinking cause sleepiness on the run.
drinking alcohol makes him sick.
he doesn't drink alcohol.
drinking alcohol can cause the stomach to freeze.
28
One man in a plane stops to:
take pictures.
get information for the newspaper.
breed his wolf.
29
When Gary finally reaches the finish line he:
rushes across and then collapses.
Yells commands at the dogs and then rewards him.
stops under the arch and kisses his wife.
has to drag Cookie under the arch.
30
Paulsen uses this source for forming his opinions in his novel:
hearing about musher's experiences
personal experience
true stories about the Iditarod
reading about how to train sled dogs
31
Paulsen's ideas in his novel are presented in this order:
chronological
orderly
random
sequential
32
Beginning the race in Anchorage is:
for television, to give Anchorage publicity.
done on only even years.
the hardest part of the race.
33
Seeing _______ encouraged Paulsen to finish the race.
other dog teams.
his wife.
the Mayor of Nome.
34
Paulsen said Storm had "scale eyes" and could mentally weigh things he put on his sled.
True
False
35
A snowhook is:
a metal hook that's used to untangle a team.
a heavy piece of metal attached to sled by line.
a piece of metal for linking the sled to the dogs.
a metal rod used to measure snow depth.
36
Storm growled and bared his teeth at the parlor stove Gary put on the sled.
False
True
