View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 14, The Stikine Ice Cap.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Christ steal a bicycle in Northern California?
(a) He had always wanted a bike like that.
(b) The man he worked for refused to pay him.
(c) He intended to return and pay for it.
(d) He was delirious at the time and did not know what he was doing.

2. In October of 1990, National Park Ranger, what did Bud Walsh discover?
(a) Evidence of a camp in a restricted area.
(b) Chris's old yellow Datsun that had been abandoned.
(c) A rifle that had been buried.
(d) A backpack with $123 stuffed inside it.

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

4. What alias did Ruess carve on the walls of the canyon?
(a) Nemo.
(b) Yosemite Sam.
(c) Ahab.
(d) Frost.

5. What does Ruess's biographer, Ken Sleight, believe happened to Ruess?
(a) Accidental drowning.
(b) Ruess changed his name and disappeared.
(c) A robbery and murder.
(d) Falling from a cliff.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Krakauer devote Chapter 9 to the story of Everett Ruess?

2. Still calling himself by another name, Chris met two drifters who befriend him. Who were they?

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

4. Who had carved a passage from the creek up to the dry gulch?

5. Where did Chris's canoe trip eventually take him after going as far as he could down the Colorado River?

(see the answer key)

This section contains 354 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample