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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 13, Virginia Beach.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why did Chris decide to go to San Diego?
(a) To get a suntan at the beach before heading North.
(b) To find work for money for his Alaskan trip.
(c) To catch a train to Alaska.
(d) To catch a steamer going up the coast to Alaska.

2. What does Ruess's biographer, Ken Sleight, believe happened to Ruess?
(a) Ruess changed his name and disappeared.
(b) Accidental drowning.
(c) Falling from a cliff.
(d) A robbery and murder.

3. On his last trip to Carthage, who is the woman Chris became close with?
(a) Westerberg's girlfriend, Gail Borah.
(b) Westerberg's cook, Francine.
(c) Westerberg's daughter, AnneW.
(d) Westerberg's mother, Alice.

4. When did Jon Krakauer interview Walt McCandless?
(a) On what would have been Chris's birthday.
(b) Never. He would not speak with Krakauer.
(c) Seven weeks after Chris's body was recovered.
(d) A year after Chris died.

5. What strange actions did Chris take right after graduating college?
(a) He gave away his entire savings to charity, abandoned his possessions, and became a drifter and wilderness explorer.
(b) He began a backpack trip that he hoped would eventually take him around the world.
(c) He shot his father and spent the next three years on the run from the police.
(d) He gave his car to his sister and took a bicycle to New York where he went to work on a merchant ship.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Krakauer's obvious purpose of including the information in Chapter 9?

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

3. What feat did Waterman achieve in 1978?

4. What group of Irish aesthetics does Krakauer include in Chapter 9?

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

(see the answer key)

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