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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, The Stikine Ice Cap.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Chris do after Westerberg was jailed?
(a) He stayed with Westerberg's family until he got out.
(b) He headed north to Alaska.
(c) He kept himself hidden because the police might have been looking for him.
(d) He hitchhiked to Needles, California, then walked through the desert to Topock, Arizona.

2. Why does Krakauer relate his own experiences in Chapter 14?
(a) To prove that he had no right to write about Chris.
(b) To see if he is any different now as a mature man.
(c) To show his affinity with Chris.
(d) To show how he was so much better than Chris.

3. What human contact did Chris have as he hikeed West from Lake Mead?
(a) A troop of Boy Scouts.
(b) Men working on an oil drilling rig.
(c) A few vagabonds and some law officers.
(d) People in a small village.

4. Why did Chris write in his journal that hiking around Lake Meade was a mistake?
(a) He had not been in a town where he could buy new boots.
(b) It was much larger than he anticipated.
(c) The heat was so intense that he became delirious.
(d) There were no people anywhere around the lake.

5. What alias did Ruess carve on the walls of the canyon?
(a) Yosemite Sam.
(b) Ahab.
(c) Nemo.
(d) Frost.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did Chris adopt the name Alex Burres?

2. What did Chris realize after he decided to abandon his once beloved Datsun?

3. When Krakauer reached an impassable place on the mountain, what did he do?

4. What steps did Walt and Billie take to find Chris?

5. Still calling himself by another name, Chris met two drifters who befriend him. Who were they?

(see the answer key)

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