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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. What did Westerberg give Chris?
(a) A ride to Alaska.
(b) A meal and a room for the night.
(c) A job on his combine crew.
(d) A pair of rubber boots.

2. What comment does Krakauer make about Chris's fondness for Jack London?
(a) That London had never actually been in Alaska.
(b) That Chris did not recognize London's lifestyle was different from the people he wrote about.
(c) That London's books had all been proven to be false.
(d) That London lectured against doing exactly what Chris was doing.

3. When did Jon Krakauer interview Walt McCandless?
(a) A year after Chris died.
(b) On what would have been Chris's birthday.
(c) Seven weeks after Chris's body was recovered.
(d) Never. He would not speak with Krakauer.

4. Racing against a storm, Krakauer reaches the summit of the Thumb. How does he describe it?
(a) He describes it as breathtakingly beautiful.
(b) He describes it as a big disappointment.
(c) He describes it as the coldest place on earth.
(d) He describes the summit as malevolent and surreal.

5. Why does Krakauer include a narrative about moose hunters driving off-road trucks to get to the site Chris eventually found?
(a) To show the difficulties even well-equipped people have in this wilderness.
(b) To put a note of optimism into the story which sustains the suspense.
(c) To explain the existence of the bus where Chris stayed.
(d) To provide a bit of humor against the tension of the story.

Short Answer Questions

1. What problem did Killian have in contacting the authorities?

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

3. What trait did sports reveal in Chris?

4. Chris confided to Gail Borah that he was close to one member of his family. Who is that?

5. What was the tender moment between Chris and his father right after Chris graduated from high school?

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