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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 prevented Jan and Bob from going to Bullhead City to pick Chris up?
(a) Their mobile home broke down.
(b) A series of freak desert storms.
(c) He arrived at their door before they could leave.
(d) Information that they were wanted by the police.

2. What message did Chris leave taped to the door of the bus?
(a) That he would return in an hour.
(b) That he was near death.
(c) That visitors were welcome.
(d) That he had staked a claim on this bus.

3. Who does Krakauer mention who had done something similar to what Chris did and survived?
(a) Gene Rosellini, the Mayor of Hippie Cove.
(b) The first man to climb Mt. McKinley.
(c) Thor Heidahl who sailed the Pacific in a canoe.
(d) Albert Swartz, a modern day Thoreau.

4. What is the origin of the Stampede Trail?
(a) A trail originally laid out by Virgil Stampede in the 1800s.
(b) A trail left when Stampede Creek changed its course.
(c) An old trail made by stampeding cattle.
(d) The trail that originally led to Pilgrim's mining claims along Stampede Creek.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How were Chris's ideals defined in his own mind?

2. What item of clothing did Chris seem to abhor?

3. How had Chris already been separating himself from his family?

4. What news seriously alarmed Jan Burres?

5. How does Krakauer classify Chris as opposed to the way most people saw him?

(see the answer key)

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