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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 5, Bullhead City.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Still calling himself by another name, Chris met two drifters who befriend him. Who were they?
(a) Martha Burres and her son Tom.
(b) Betty Burres and her father Edgar.
(c) Jane Burres and her nephew Fred.
(d) Jan Burres and her boyfriend Bob.

3. How does Chapter 1 begin?
(a) With a description of the Alaskan wildeerness.
(b) With a postcard written by McCandless, addressed to Wayne Westerberg in Carthage, South Dakota.
(c) With a letter Chris writes to his sister.
(d) With a conversation Chris has with an Inuit.

4. What Tolstoy book was found inside the bus?
(a) Family Happiness.
(b) The Gulag Archipeliago.
(c) The Cherry Orchard.
(d) War and Peace.

5. What did Walt and Billie McCandless discover when they drive to Chris's apartment in Atlanta?
(a) That there was no such address.
(b) That the building had been torn down.
(c) That he had moved out three months before.
(d) That Chris had never lived there.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gallien know about city people who came to do what Chris had in mind?

2. Why did Christ steal a bicycle in Northern California?

3. To whom did Chris send a postcard from Bullhead City?

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

5. What device does Krakauer use to open Chapter 1 and subsequent chapters?

(see the answer key)

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