1. What complication did Chris face while living in The Slabs?
(a) He could produce no identification when the border patrol came to the camp.
(b) Tracy, a 17-year-old girl developed a huge crush on him.
(c) The other drifters believed he was an undercover cop.
(d) He got into an argument with Jan Burres.

2. What is Krakauer's obvious purpose of including the information in Chapter 9?
(a) Krakauer gradually and artfully transforms the reader's view of Chris from mentally ill isolationist to knowledgeable spiritual seeker.
(b) Krakauer gives examples to leave the reader confused about Chris.
(c) Krakauer skillfully shows that there has never been someone like Chris McCandless.
(d) Krakauer points out that there have historically been examples of sick isolationists.

3. Where did Chris live while he was in Carthage?
(a) In a tack room.
(b) At the YMCA.
(c) In the Westerberg home.
(d) In a cheap boarding house.

4. How were Chris's ideals defined in his own mind?
(a) They were defined by the works of Phillip Roth and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(b) His ideals were defined by his own sense of injustice in the world.
(c) He valued chastity and moral purity as defined by Tolstoy and Thoreau.
(d) They were defined by the poetry of E.E. cummings.

5. How did Chris introduce himself to Gallien?
(a) As Wayne Westerberg.
(b) As a botonist.
(c) As Bill Cody.
(d) As Alex, refusing to give a last name.