Yeah, Quentin was raised mostly by his dad in middle class Jersey? He can survive in the wild, because duh, he went to cowboy camp as a kid? Also, because magic tossed him back in time when he and Eliot Waugh had to figure out how to survive on their own until they solved a quest. They ended up staying there for fifty years, so he can make a fire and not set himself on fire? Most days? Can't read a compass for shit and has the directional intelligence of something small and helpless.