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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 18, The Stampede Trail.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Krakauer answer Chris's critics?
(a) He challenges anyone to do it better than Chris did.
(b) He maintains that Chris knew what he was doing and almost made it.
(c) He shows how Chris would have survived had it not been for an accident.
(d) Krakauer cites several examples of marginal individuals who have died in the Alaskan wilderness, presenting the details of their cases to show that McCandless was not the typical foolish greenhorn.

2. Impressed with Chris's intelligence, what did Franz try to get him to do?
(a) Start teaching young people.
(b) Write a book about his travels.
(c) Get an education.
(d) Clean up and get a good job.

3. What shows Chris's attitude toward injustices that began when he was in college?
(a) He refused a new car because there were so many people who did not have one.
(b) He began bringing homeless people to his dorm room.
(c) He started a soup kitchen in Annandale.
(d) He took classes about world hunger, poverty, wealth distribution and racism.

4. What questions did Chris ask Gallien that impressed the older man?
(a) About traffic in that part of Alaska.
(b) About the length of winters in Alaska.
(c) About moose and carribu.
(d) Informed questions about the flora and fauna of Alaska.

5. Although Waterman became something of a local hero, what job did he have in Fairbanks?
(a) Accountant.
(b) Mechanic.
(c) Musician.
(d) Dishwasher.

Short Answer Questions

1. After surviving 10 years living off the land, what became of Rosellini?

2. What two requests did Stuckey make of Alex as they parted company?

3. What did Chris and Ruess each do shortly before their deaths?

4. What feat did Waterman achieve in 1978?

5. What does Krakauer think might have made the difference in Chris's survival?

(see the answer key)

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