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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 16, The Alaska Interior.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Where did Chris meet Wayne Westerberg?
(a) On the Colorado River.
(b) In Carthage, South Dakota.
(c) In Fairbanks, Alaska.
(d) In Los Angeles.

2. What work did Chris (Alex) do while he stayed with Jan and Bob at The Slabs?
(a) Acting as a security gurad.
(b) Making hamburgers that he learned how to do at McDonald's.
(c) Selling in their fleamarket books stall.
(d) Digging ditches.

3. After a semester at UCLA and a winter in San Francisco, what did Ruess do?
(a) Looking for someone to join his nature walks.
(b) Keeping a journal that was published after his death.
(c) Studying photography.
(d) Spent the rest of his days backpacking and sleeping on the ground.

4. What did Chris and Ruess each do shortly before their deaths?
(a) Write out a will.
(b) Dig their graves.
(c) Burn their money.
(d) Post several letters.

5. Who gave Krakauer dinner and a place to sleep in Petersberg?
(a) A kind woman named Kai Sandburn.
(b) A drifter named Jan Buress.
(c) The captain of a tuna fishing boat.
(d) A policeman offered him a jail cell.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is ironic about Krakauer's descriptions of Walt McCandless and that of his rebellious son, Chris?

2. Why did Chris write in his journal that he had found the Magic Bus?

3. What type of people did Ruess like to spend time with?

4. What did Westerberg give Chris?

5. What had Chris's mother and father offered to do after he graduated from college?

(see the answer key)

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