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

2. What did Chris do with the $24,000 he had left over from his inheritance?
(a) He donated it to OXFAM.
(b) He gave it to his sister.
(c) He gave it to the Salvation Army.
(d) He gave it to UNICEF.

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

4. Why did Krakauer include so much about the McCandless family in Chapter 3?
(a) To contrast them with the adoptive Westerberg family.
(b) To make Chris seem thoughtless and cold.
(c) To give the reader an idea that Chris might change his mind.
(d) Just for conversation with Wayne Westerberg.

5. In what way did Chris exhibit a double standard about money?
(a) He refused to take money for the work he did, but accepted goods that probably cost as much.
(b) He borrowed money that he knew he could never repay.
(c) He refused to let Jan drive him to pick up his last check at McDonald's.
(d) He now wanted to collect all the money he could to outfit himself for Alaska.

Short Answer Questions

1. What device does Krakauer use to open Chapter 1 and subsequent chapters?

2. Impressed with Chris's intelligence, what did Franz try to get him to do?

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

4. On his last trip to Carthage, who is the woman Chris became close with?

5. In Chris's relationships with people, what is the most striking contradiction?

(see the answer key)

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