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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 is Davis Gulch?
(a) A watery oasis in the midst of southern Utah.
(b) A valley that has only one way in and out.
(c) A cattle passage through western Utah.
(d) An extension of the Grand Canyon.

2. What type of people did Ruess like to spend time with?
(a) Hikers and rafters.
(b) Vagabonds and drifters.
(c) Photographers and painters.
(d) Native Americans and Russians.

3. Why does Krakauer devote Chapter 9 to the story of Everett Ruess?
(a) Krakauer wants to demonstrate mental illness in Ruess.
(b) Krakauer wants to show how different Ruess is from Chris.
(c) Krakauer sees great similarities between Ruess and Chris.
(d) Karkauer wants to expand the scope of his thesis.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Krakauer do similar to what Chris did when he needed to go to the village of Petersberg?

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

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

4. Why did Chris adopt the name Alex Burres?

5. What news seriously alarmed Jan Burres?

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