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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. Who gave Krakauer dinner and a place to sleep in Petersberg?
(a) A policeman offered him a jail cell.
(b) A kind woman named Kai Sandburn.
(c) The captain of a tuna fishing boat.
(d) A drifter named Jan Buress.

2. What was the tender moment between Chris and his father right after Chris graduated from high school?
(a) He let his father ready his personal journal.
(b) He asked his father's advice about choosing a college.
(c) He spent that summer doing things with his father.
(d) He gave his father an expensive telescope and told him how much he appreciated him.

3. Where did Jim Gallien first encounter Chris?
(a) In a hardware store in Fairbanks, Alaska.
(b) In the library at Fairbanks, Alaska.
(c) Hitchhiking about four miles outside of Fairbanks, Alaska.
(d) In a cheap cafe on the outskirts of Fairbanks.

4. What family outings did the McCandless family mention to Krakauer?
(a) Camping trips with an Airstream Trailer.
(b) A beach house in Cape Cod.
(c) A yearly trip to Texas.
(d) Going to the Grand Canyon every year.

5. What did Chris do the summer after his sophomore year in college?
(a) He took a cross country hike.
(b) He returned to Annandale and wrote a flawless software program.
(c) He worked in a garage to make money to buy his Datsun.
(d) He spent the entire summer with his sister, Carine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Krakauer include in the book besides events he uncovered from the life of Chris McCandless?

2. Why does Krakauer think Chris could not excrete poison from his body?

3. How did Walt and Billie McCandless learn in Chapter 4 where their son might be?

4. What complication did Chris face while living in The Slabs?

5. Although Waterman became something of a local hero, what job did he have in Fairbanks?

(see the answer key)

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