Dec 7, Wilderness Survival Quiz

A wilderness survival quiz can be a fun way to learn more!

These questions cover a wide variety of wilderness survival skills, including knowledge of making shelter and fire, finding survival food, recognizing hazards and addressing first-aid situations.

Going through a wilderness survival quiz like this can help you learn new information as well as refresh your memory of survival essentials. It can be fun to quiz yourself or your friends on what you know. Once you have finished this quiz, you can view the answers at the bottom.

1. Which of these factors do not contribute to thedrying of wood (for the purpose of finding dry parts of a bow-drill fire-making kit)?

A. Being on the south side of trees

B. Branches being exposed to sun and wind

C. Branches high up in a tree

D. Branches being covered in moss

2. Where would you find dry tinder in the rain?

A. Inner bark on cedar trees

B. Under rocks covered in lichen

C. Under moss

D. Ocean spray flower heads

3. What do you need to do to a coal to make itignite a wet tinder bundle?

4. What are three edible plants available during the fall season?

5. Where would you find a vitamin D supplement innature?

6. Which of the following is not a sign ofhypothermia?

A. Shivering

B. Apathy and lethargy

C. Incoherence, irrational behavior

D. Impairment of muscular performance

E. Stomach pains

7. What should you do if attacked by a cougar?

A. Play dead

B. Fight back

C. Take a picture

D. Talk calmly and try to sneak away

8. What percentage of blood loss will likely causedeath?

A. 10%

B. 15%

C. 25%

D. 50%

9. Your friend fell out of a tree trying to gethoney from a bee hive. She fell 20 feet and was knocked unconscious for 45seconds. You know from your trainingthat she should be monitored for 24 hours. Which of the following signs do NOT indicate a serious head injury?

A. Complaints of blurred vision lasting over anhour

B. Unusual tiredness or sleepiness

C. A headache that increases in intensity

D. Burps that smell like sulfur

E. Unusual loss of balance

10. Your other friend went up into the honey treeand also fell. He was knocked unconsciousfor 5 minutes. Which of the following isNOT a sign of serious head trauma with a need for rapid evacuation?

A. Depressed fracture of the skull

B. Black and blue around swollen eyes

C. Black and blue behind and below the ears

D. Unusual rigid postures

E. Shivering uncontrollably.

11. Why must you apply a traction device for abroken femur? (A traction device gently creates tension to pull the foot awayfrom the body).

A. To prevent movement of the broken leg

B. Reduce bleeding into the thigh

C. Reduce the amount of pain

D. To prevent further injury by spasms of themuscles

E. All of the above

12. Which is more dangerous, emotional shock or trueshock?

13. What is the cause of true shock?

14. What is the most consistent sign of true shock?

A. Rapid, weak pulse

B. Rapid breathing

C. Pale or bluish skin, nail beds, and lips

D. Restlessness, anxiety, weakness

E. Nausea and vomiting

15. When digging for water at a curve in a dry riverbed, is it better to dig on the inside of the curve or the outside of thecurve?

16. What are three edible/nutritional uses of pinetrees?

17. What are three natural bow drill cordpossibilities local to the northwest?

18. What is the most important calorie source insurvival living?

A. Sugar

B. Fat

C. Carbohydrates

D. Protein

19. Which method of cooking wild food will retainthe most nutrients?

A. Boiling in a pot

B. Roasting on the coals

C. Pit baking

D. Frying on a rock

20. Which of these animals is the most dangerouswhen in western Washington?

A. Rattlesnakes

B. A wounded deer

C. Black bears

D. Mountain Lions

E. Wolves

21. Which of these is the most useful stone tool forsurvival living?

A. A big sandstone slab

B. An obsidian dagger

C. A burin

D. A baseball sized granite cobble

22. When making a bow-drill cord from natural fiberslike dogbane or nettle, what is the best number of strands to reverse-wrap?

A. 1

B. 2

C. 3

D. 9

23. Where is the best place to go to look for rocksin a survival situation?

A. North facing slopes

B. South facing slopes

C. River beds

D. Mountain tops

E. Cedar forests

24. What is a good number of traps to set in asurvival situation?

A. 1-3

B. 3-5

C. 10-20

D. 143

25. What is the most important thing in a survivalsituation?

A. Practice and preparation

B. Positive attitude

C. Big muscles

D. Always carrying a knife

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