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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 8, Alaska.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What comment does Krakauer make about Chris's fondness for Jack London?
(a) That London lectured against doing exactly what Chris was doing.
(b) That London's books had all been proven to be false.
(c) That Chris did not recognize London's lifestyle was different from the people he wrote about.
(d) That London had never actually been in Alaska.

2. What is ironic about Krakauer's descriptions of Walt McCandless and that of his rebellious son, Chris?
(a) Krakauer describes Chris and Walt McCandless as being very similar, both stubborn and temperamental individuals.
(b) Walt and Chris believe in the same socialistic things.
(c) Walt had always been kind and generous but Chris had always been aloof.
(d) Chris was a carbon copy of his father when he was that age.

3. Where did Chris intend to hike?
(a) Where no one had ever gone before.
(b) The Stampede Trail, a faint track in the wilderness well off the beaten path.
(c) Along the Alaskan Pipeline.
(d) Southwestward into Canada.

4. What Tolstoy book was found inside the bus?
(a) The Gulag Archipeliago.
(b) Family Happiness.
(c) The Cherry Orchard.
(d) War and Peace.

5. How does Chapter 1 begin?
(a) With a postcard written by McCandless, addressed to Wayne Westerberg in Carthage, South Dakota.
(b) With a description of the Alaskan wildeerness.
(c) With a conversation Chris has with an Inuit.
(d) With a letter Chris writes to his sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Krakauer suggest shows that Chris was not mentally ill?

2. At what point did Chris stop writing in his journal?

3. How does Krakauer answer Chris's critics?

4. To whom did Chris send a postcard from Bullhead City?

5. When Chris corresponded with his sister, what did he confide to her?

(see the answer key)

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