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“Test your survival knowledge with a simple exam”, by Melinda Allan, from The Register-Guard, February
18, 1987, Eugene, Oregon, page 5D, the article can be found HERE
To read “Test Your Survival Knowledge, Part Two” go HERE,
and to read “Test Your Survival Knowledge, Part Three” go HERE –
Author’s note
I
love reading about survival and the wilderness, and I
enjoy taking survival quizzes. “I
need to get a hobby”, you say; unfortunately, this is my hobby!
Anyways,
I read this one to my Daughter and my youngest Son, to see what answers they
would give. They were good sports about
it and they did pretty well, however as we talked about the answers and why
they were correct, I realized that they didn’t know some of the background
information, which they would have needed to get the answers right.
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An excerpt from “Test your survival knowledge with a
simple exam”, by Melinda Allan, The Register-Guard, February 18, 1987, Eugene,
Oregon, page 5D
So,
take the quiz and then later we will talk about the answers. No cheating now, don’t look at the answers!
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An excerpt from “Test your survival knowledge with a
simple exam”, by Melinda Allan, The Register-Guard, February 18, 1987, Eugene,
Oregon, page 5D
Okay,
how did you do? Did you get them all
right? Hmmm...no, alright, let’s go over
the answers.
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Question one from “Test your survival knowledge with a
simple exam”, by Melinda Allan, The Register-Guard, February 18, 1987, Eugene,
Oregon, page 5D
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The Rule of Threes, graphic by the
author.
To
answer question one, you need to think about The Rule of Threes, and
here I disagree with the author of “Test your survival knowledge with a simple
exam”, Melinda Allan. She wrote that the
answer to question one, was “C. Water”.
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I
think that “B. Shelter”, would have been a better answer, because without
shelter from the hostile elements, be it desert Sun, or the cold, wet and wind
of the Northwest, or the wilds of the Northeast, you will be dead from exposure
long before you dehydrate!
Perhaps
what she meant, was that you should first find a supply of water and then build
your shelter nearby it. If that is the
case, then I agree with her and her choice of “C. Water”, otherwise not so
much.
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The
author wrote that the answer to question two was “C. Two Days”.
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Answer two from “Test your
survival knowledge with a simple exam”, by Melinda Allan, The Register-Guard, February 18, 1987, Eugene, Oregon, page
5D
This
question and its answer is based on the research done by Dr. E. F. Adolph, et
al., as published in The Physiology of Man in the Desert. According to Dr. Adolph’s research, at that
temperature, and with that amount of water, you would die in two days, whether
you attempted to stay put or to walk out.
In this case, if you were stranded near a crashed plane or a stalled
car, which is easy for rescuers to see, you should stay put. If you KNEW absolutely, which way to go and
you KNEW you could walk out in two days, then okay attempt to walk out at
night. If not, perhaps your evenings
would be better spent building signals to help rescuers find you while you
spent your days hiding from the moisture stealing Sun!
To
see what the effect of various temperatures, energy expenditures and amounts of
water would have on your ability to survive in the desert, see the chart below.
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An excerpt from, “Desert Survival: Information For
Anyone Traveling In The Desert Southwest, 1962” by the Maricopa County Civil
Defense Joint Council.
Because
there is so much to unpack in the six questions Melinda Allan poses in “Test
your survival knowledge with a simple exam”, I just can’t fit it all of it into
one article. So, tune in next week for “Test
Your Survival Knowledge, Part Two”, where I will cover questions three and
four.
I
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That
is all for now, and as always, until next time, Happy Trails!
Sources
Allan, Melinda; “Test your survival knowledge
with a simple exam”, The Register-Guard, February 18, 1987, Eugene, Oregon,
page 5D, https://books.google.com/books?id=T1ZWAAAAIBAJ&pg=PA16&dq=%22machine+gun+rentals+just+happen%22&article_id=5488,4631912&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi0ttLygvnqAhUDl3IEHbmeCMwQ6AEwAHoECAAQAg#v=onepage&q=%22machine%20gun%20rentals%20just%20happen%22&f=false, accessed August 5, 2020
Civil Defense Joint Council, Desert
Survival: Information For Anyone Traveling In The Desert Southwest, 1962
(Maricopa County; Phoenix, Arizona [1962]) reprinted in http://docs.azgs.az.gov/SpecColl/1988-01/1988-01-0026.pdf, p. 5-20
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