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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 had Chris's mother and father offered to do after he graduated from college?
(a) Buy him a new car and pay for his graduate school.
(b) Help him get a job with their Congressman.
(c) Bring him into the family business.
(d) Give him a trip to Europe.

2. What effect had Chris had on Ronald Franz?
(a) He started taking in every drifter he saw.
(b) He started going back to church.
(c) He became an alcoholic.
(d) He sold his possessions and lived in a mobile camper.

3. What was the skeleton in Walt's closet that stressed the whole family, Chris in particular?
(a) Walt had lived a bigamist life for some years after Chris was born.
(b) Walt and Billie divorced but later remarried.
(c) Walt had affairs with several women.
(d) Walt kept a mistress after Chris went to college.

4. Why does Krakauer relate his own experiences in Chapter 14?
(a) To show his affinity with Chris.
(b) To prove that he had no right to write about Chris.
(c) To show how he was so much better than Chris.
(d) To see if he is any different now as a mature man.

5. What was Chris's plan for after college that he did not tell his family?
(a) He planed to go live in Mexico.
(b) He planed to go on an indefinite road trip.
(c) He planed to commit suicide.
(d) He planed to marry a girl his parents did not approve of.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Franz offered to give Chris a ride to his campsite, what is it he didn't know?

2. Why did the employees at McDonald's object to Chris?

3. What was the similar experience that led to both of these stories of drop out and adventure?

4. After a semester at UCLA and a winter in San Francisco, what did Ruess do?

5. In regards to family, how do Ruess and Chris compare?

(see the answer key)

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