Into the Wild Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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Into the Wild Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Detrital Wash.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Gallien notice about Chris's boots?
(a) They were too large for his feet.
(b) They were lightweight and not waterproof.
(c) They were designed for mountain climbing.
(d) They were old and ripped out at the seams.

2. What event happened in April 1992 that prompted the writing of Into The Wild?
(a) Christopher McCandless disappeared and no one ever knew what happened to him.
(b) An 80-year-old man called OUTSIDE Magazine to tell them about Chris McCandless.
(c) There was a volcano that killed a young man named Christopher McCandless.
(d) Christopher McCandless hitchhiked to Alaska and entered the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley and four months later, a party of hunters found his body.

3. Why did Krakauer include so much about the McCandless family in Chapter 3?
(a) Just for conversation with Wayne Westerberg.
(b) To contrast them with the adoptive Westerberg family.
(c) To make Chris seem thoughtless and cold.
(d) To give the reader an idea that Chris might change his mind.

4. What questions did Chris ask Gallien that impressed the older man?
(a) About traffic in that part of Alaska.
(b) About moose and carribu.
(c) About the length of winters in Alaska.
(d) Informed questions about the flora and fauna of Alaska.

5. What did Butch Killian want to do when he arrived on the bus scene where Chris had died?
(a) He wanted to form a search party to see if there was anyone else with the dead boy.
(b) He wanted to burn the bus to rid it of the smell.
(c) He wanted to contact the media because it was a great story.
(d) He wanted to contact the state police to come and remove the body.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Walt and Billie McCandless learn in Chapter 4 where their son might be?

2. How had Chris already been separating himself from his family?

3. Why did Chris write in his journal that hiking around Lake Meade was a mistake?

4. Where did Chris meet Wayne Westerberg?

5. What had Chris's mother and father offered to do after he graduated from college?

(see the answer key)

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