Guts By Gary Paulsen

Front

Which of the following statements about the narrator is true?

• He worked as a volunteer responding to emergency calls.
• He has never seen anyone die.
• He once had to take over flying a plane when the pilot died of a heart attack.
• He doesn't really want to be a writer.

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He worked as a volunteer responding to emergency calls.

Front

What do the following lines from the excerpt mainly reveal about the narrator? “She gave me the location of the ranch and I took off. It should have taken me a full twenty minutes to get there because of the roughness of the gravel roads but I arrived in fourteen by driving like a maniac."

Back

He is very motivated to help people in emergency situations.

Front

What is most likely the author’s reason for including this paragraph about Hatchet at the beginning of the excerpt? Perhaps the single most catastrophic event in Brian’s life in Hatchet is when the pilot dies of a heart attack. This forces Brian to fly the plane and land—in little more than an “aimed” crash—in a lake, where he swims free and saves himself.

Back

To provide background about a scene in his book that was inspired by what he’s about to describe

Front

Why does the narrator continue to perform CPR on the dead man?

Back

He cannot bear to give up hope.

Front

Which statement best summarizes the central idea of the excerpt?

Back

A haunting event the author witnessed as a volunteer became the inspiration for a scene in Hatchet.

Front

What is mainly the reason why the narrator remembers this man’s heart attack?

Back

The man looks into the author’s eyes in a way no one ever had.

Front

Confluence (in the context of a small prairie town near highways)

Back

The place where two things meet