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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 4, Detrital Wash.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What event happened in April 1992 that prompted the writing of Into The Wild?
(a) An 80-year-old man called OUTSIDE Magazine to tell them about Chris McCandless.
(b) Christopher McCandless disappeared and no one ever knew what happened to him.
(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) There was a volcano that killed a young man named Christopher McCandless.

3. What did Gallien notice about Chris's boots?
(a) They were old and ripped out at the seams.
(b) They were designed for mountain climbing.
(c) They were lightweight and not waterproof.
(d) They were too large for his feet.

4. 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) People use it to hike to Mt. McKinley.
(d) It runs along side of the Alaska Pipeline.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Gallien know about city people who came to do what Chris had in mind?

2. What questions did Chris ask Gallien that impressed the older man?

3. What did Walt and Billie McCandless discover when they drive to Chris's apartment in Atlanta?

4. What is Krakauer's message by using the details of the moose hunter's trip to the bus?

5. Still calling himself by another name, Chris met two drifters who befriend him. Who were they?

(see the answer key)

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