1. In Chris's relationships with people, what is the most striking contradiction?
(a) His coldness toward his parents and his warmth with people he met in his travels.
(b) His ambivalence to his family and his hatred of the people he met.
(c) His hurtfulness toward his family and his refusal to help anyone else.
(d) His love for his family but his inability to show it.

2. At what point did Chris stop writing in his journal?
(a) When it had no more blank pages.
(b) When his camera was ruined and he buried it outside of Vegas.
(c) When it accidentally fell into his campfire one night.
(d) When he decided that no one would ever read it.

3. Why was author Jon Krakauer interested in writing Chris's story?
(a) Krakauer identifies with McCandless's attraction to nature and to high-risk activities, and also understands the young man's troubled relationship with his father.
(b) Krakauer wanted to pass judgement on Chris in the hopes of preventing another young man from doing the same.
(c) Krakauer had nothing better to do at the time and thought he would enjoy visiting all the places Chris had gone.
(d) Krakauer recognized that Chris's story would be a sure-fire best seller and be made into a movie.

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

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.