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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 11, Chesapeake Beach.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How did Chris get to San Francisco?
(a) He hitchhiked.
(b) He rode on a vegetable truck he helped load up.
(c) He had enough money for a bus ticket.
(d) Franz drove him there.

2. How does Krakauer answer Chris's critics?
(a) He challenges anyone to do it better than Chris did.
(b) He maintains that Chris knew what he was doing and almost made it.
(c) Krakauer cites several examples of marginal individuals who have died in the Alaskan wilderness, presenting the details of their cases to show that McCandless was not the typical foolish greenhorn.
(d) He shows how Chris would have survived had it not been for an accident.

3. What family outings did the McCandless family mention to Krakauer?
(a) Camping trips with an Airstream Trailer.
(b) A beach house in Cape Cod.
(c) Going to the Grand Canyon every year.
(d) A yearly trip to Texas.

4. What important work does Walt McCandless do?
(a) Biochemist.
(b) CIA undercover.
(c) Nuclear physicist.
(d) Advanced radar technology.

5. Where did Chris's canoe trip eventually take him after going as far as he could down the Colorado River?
(a) Some duck hunters agreed to drive him to the Gulf of California.
(b) He ended up staying with a Mexican family for six weeks.
(c) He headed South and ended up in Acapulco.
(d) He retraced his way back upstream.

Short Answer Questions

1. What human contact did Chris have as he hikeed West from Lake Mead?

2. Why did Chris write in his journal that hiking around Lake Meade was a mistake?

3. How long did Chris survive in that hostile environment?

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

5. What symbol is ironic on the leather belt?

(see the answer key)

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