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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did the word sound like in Paulsen's friend's mouth?
(a) An explosion.
(b) An epithet.
(c) A command.
(d) None of these.

2. How many of the dogs had gotten frost bitten ears?
(a) Six.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Three.

3. What behavioral changes did Fred go through?
(a) He lost his temper and became easily irritable.
(b) All of these.
(c) He quit guarding the house and alerting people to the presence of strangers.
(d) He stopped coming when Gary called.

4. What ate the chipmunk?
(a) A mouse.
(b) A rat.
(c) A red squirrel.
(d) A snake.

5. How many miles is the Iditarod from start to finish?
(a) Over two thousand miles.
(b) Over twelve hundred miles.
(c) Over twenty-one hundred miles.
(d) Over eleven hundred miles.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where didn't Storm want to leave when he was retired?

2. How did Paulsen know that the dogs weren't tired?

3. Which dog nearly took Storm's head off in surprise at this action?

4. What isn't there in this place?

5. Why did the boy grab Paulsen's team?

Short Essay Questions

1. What tradition did Storm start, and what did it come to mean?

2. What does it not seem possible to accomplish and why?

3. How does it feel, on day three, for Gary running the dogs?

4. What will Gary always blame himself for?

5. On day nine, who comes and offers Paulsen a proposition? What is this proposition?

6. What did Paulsen eat while stuck in the deep cold?

7. What things didn't make sense about where the deer was?

8. What does Gary hear that breaks him of the spell that took him not to finish the Run?

9. How were the dogs strange with Gary?

10. What is the difference with hallucinations during the race?

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