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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part II, The Race, Days 1-6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of the bears was nosing around the burning garbage?
(a) Notch-ear.
(b) None of these.
(c) Billy Jo.
(d) Scarhead.

2. Where did the animal attempt to go?
(a) Onto the ice.
(b) None of these.
(c) Into the forest.
(d) Towards Gary.

3. What scared Paulsen about the song the dogs sang?
(a) All of these.
(b) It was a death song.
(c) It was a song the dogs had sung when one of their member had died in his kennel from old age.
(d) He had heard it only once before.

4. What kind of lick was being given?
(a) A blood thirsty lick.
(b) A prey lick.
(c) A wound lick.
(d) None of these.

5. What did Gary think he was hallucinating, but wasn't?
(a) A wolf.
(b) A buffalo.
(c) A moose.
(d) A bear.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many hours did this continue for?

2. What mistake did Paulsen make?

3. Whose blood would begin to teach Paulsen?

4. What were mushers warned about that Gary approaches on day six?

5. How did the wolves hold the animal?

(see the answer key)

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