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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, The Stampede Trail.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What news seriously alarmed Jan Burres?
(a) That Alex might be a serial killer.
(b) That Alex had burned the last of his money when he abandoned his car.
(c) That Alex never intended to see any of his family again.
(d) That Alex was wanted by the Nevada police.

2. Impressed with Chris's intelligence, what did Franz try to get him to do?
(a) Clean up and get a good job.
(b) Get an education.
(c) Write a book about his travels.
(d) Start teaching young people.

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

4. What is the origin of the Stampede Trail?
(a) The trail that originally led to Pilgrim's mining claims along Stampede Creek.
(b) An old trail made by stampeding cattle.
(c) A trail originally laid out by Virgil Stampede in the 1800s.
(d) A trail left when Stampede Creek changed its course.

5. Where did Chris live while he was in Carthage?
(a) At the YMCA.
(b) In a tack room.
(c) In the Westerberg home.
(d) In a cheap boarding house.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is significant about August 5?

2. What does Ruess's biographer, Ken Sleight, believe happened to Ruess?

3. What is prominently displayed in Carine McCandless's home?

4. Who had left Chris a $40,000 inheritance for his school?

5. Why does Krakauer relate his own experiences in Chapter 14?

(see the answer key)

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