Into the Wild Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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Into the Wild Quiz | Eight Week Quiz A

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, The Stampede Trail.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why is the Stampede Trail still in use?
(a) Campers and hunters keep using it instead of making a new one.
(b) In the early 1960s, the trail was upgraded by Yutan Construction to an actual roadway.
(c) It runs along side of the Alaska Pipeline.
(d) People use it to hike to Mt. McKinley.

2. What do some people think about Chris McCandless?
(a) That he was accident prone.
(b) That he was murdered in Alaska.
(c) That he was a foolish boy who threw away his life.
(d) That he had the spirit of Daniel Boone.

3. What message did Chris leave taped to the door of the bus?
(a) That visitors were welcome.
(b) That he had staked a claim on this bus.
(c) That he would return in an hour.
(d) That he was near death.

4. What did Chris tell Gallien his plans were?
(a) To write a book like Thoreau.
(b) To hike as far north as he could go.
(c) To walk into the wilderness near Denali National Park to live off the land for several months.
(d) To hike from Mt. McKinley to the Gulf of Mexico.

5. What event happened in April 1992 that prompted the writing of Into The Wild?
(a) Christopher McCandless disappeared and no one ever knew what happened to him.
(b) There was a volcano that killed a young man named Christopher McCandless.
(c) Christopher McCandless hitchhiked to Alaska and entered the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley and four months later, a party of hunters found his body.
(d) An 80-year-old man called OUTSIDE Magazine to tell them about Chris McCandless.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Butch Killian want to do when he arrived on the bus scene where Chris had died?

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

3. What did Gallien think about Chris's weapon?

4. What was Chris carrying when he met Jim Gallien?

5. How long did Chris survive in that hostile environment?

(see the answer key)

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