1. How did Walt and Billie McCandless learn in Chapter 4 where their son might be?
(a) They saw him on a newscast on TV.
(b) One of Chris's high school friends got a call from Chris.
(c) They received a ticket issued to their son for hitchhiking near Eureka, California.
(d) Jan Burres called them.

2. How had Chris already been separating himself from his family?
(a) By living off campus in a room that had no phone.
(b) By going out of town for holidays and weekends.
(c) By not speaking to them for months at a time.
(d) By only meeting them occasionally at a restaurant.

3. What did Butch Killian want to do when he arrived on the bus scene where Chris had died?
(a) He wanted to form a search party to see if there was anyone else with the dead boy.
(b) He wanted to contact the state police to come and remove the body.
(c) He wanted to burn the bus to rid it of the smell.
(d) He wanted to contact the media because it was a great story.

4. What is Krakauer's message by using the details of the moose hunter's trip to the bus?
(a) He shows that even seasoned hunters must contend with the harsh elements of the northwest.
(b) He breaks up the story to keep it interesting.
(c) He shows more about how beautiful the landscape is in that place.
(d) It is how he explains the difficulty in getting to the place where Chris died.

5. Where did Chris's canoe trip eventually take him after going as far as he could down the Colorado River?
(a) Some duck hunters agreed to drive him to the Gulf of California.
(b) He retraced his way back upstream.
(c) He ended up staying with a Mexican family for six weeks.
(d) He headed South and ended up in Acapulco.