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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 happened when the moose hunters got to the bus where they plan to camp out?
(a) There was a terrible smell coming from inside the bus.
(b) There was a pack of wolves surrounding the bus.
(c) The bus had been moved and they didn't know where to look for it.
(d) The bus was a burned out shell.

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

3. How do Waterman and Chris differ?
(a) Chris was able to make friends, Waterman was socially awkward.
(b) Chis was short and Waterman was very tall.
(c) Chris was afraid of the water and Waterman feared heights.
(d) Chris burned his money, but Waterman always had money with him.

4. What was the official verdict on the cause of death?
(a) Starvation.
(b) Lead poisoning.
(c) Pneumonia.
(d) Punctured lungs.

5. What is The Slabs?
(a) A settlement of people who erect their tents on concrete slabs.
(b) An old U. S. Calvary outpost.
(c) A flat, rocky area in the Arizona desert.
(d) An abandoned military base where drifters come during the winter.

Short Answer Questions

1. What Tolstoy book was found inside the bus?

2. Where had Chris McCandless attended school and graduated with honors?

3. What feat did Waterman achieve in 1978?

4. What did Chris do with the $24,000 he had left over from his inheritance?

5. What event happened in April 1992 that prompted the writing of Into The Wild?

(see the answer key)

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