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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What human contact did Chris have as he hikeed West from Lake Mead?
(a) A troop of Boy Scouts.
(b) Men working on an oil drilling rig.
(c) People in a small village.
(d) A few vagabonds and some law officers.

2. Why does Krakauer devote Chapter 9 to the story of Everett Ruess?
(a) Krakauer sees great similarities between Ruess and Chris.
(b) Krakauer wants to show how different Ruess is from Chris.
(c) Karkauer wants to expand the scope of his thesis.
(d) Krakauer wants to demonstrate mental illness in Ruess.

3. What is the tone of Krakauer's book?
(a) Compassionate.
(b) Defiant.
(c) Fearful.
(d) Angry.

4. What event happened in April 1992 that prompted the writing of Into The Wild?
(a) There was a volcano that killed a young man named Christopher McCandless.
(b) An 80-year-old man called OUTSIDE Magazine to tell them about Chris McCandless.
(c) Christopher McCandless disappeared and no one ever knew what happened to him.
(d) Christopher McCandless hitchhiked to Alaska and entered the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley and four months later, a party of hunters found his body.

5. What was located at Oh-My-God Hot Springs?
(a) A ranger station.
(b) A hippie commune of sorts, which had sprung up around some natural hot springs.
(c) A pool with a waterfall.
(d) A tourist inn and spa.

6. What work did Chris (Alex) do while he stayed with Jan and Bob at The Slabs?
(a) Acting as a security gurad.
(b) Making hamburgers that he learned how to do at McDonald's.
(c) Digging ditches.
(d) Selling in their fleamarket books stall.

7. In what area do people who knew Chris agree that he was inexperienced?
(a) Cooking for himself.
(b) Managing money.
(c) Living off the land.
(d) Having a relationship with a girl.

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

9. What response does Krakauer report that he got from his OUTSIDE Magazine article on Chris?
(a) Most people wanted to know more about Chris's family life.
(b) They were mostly critical of Chris's ignorance.
(c) Most people applauded Chris's spirit.
(d) Most people thought Krakauer had made up the story.

10. How do Waterman and Chris differ?
(a) Chis was short and Waterman was very tall.
(b) Chris was afraid of the water and Waterman feared heights.
(c) Chris was able to make friends, Waterman was socially awkward.
(d) Chris burned his money, but Waterman always had money with him.

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

12. What steps did Walt and Billie take to find Chris?
(a) They got the police to put out an APB on Chris.
(b) They went on TV begging Chris to come home.
(c) They hired a private investigator.
(d) They took a trip to Eureka, California.

13. What did Chris realize after he decided to abandon his once beloved Datsun?
(a) That he missed his family and wanted to go home.
(b) That he needed better hiking shoes since he was now walking.
(c) That he was free from material possessions that tie him down.
(d) That it would be impossible to continue without a car.

14. After a semester at UCLA and a winter in San Francisco, what did Ruess do?
(a) Studying photography.
(b) Keeping a journal that was published after his death.
(c) Spent the rest of his days backpacking and sleeping on the ground.
(d) Looking for someone to join his nature walks.

15. Why did the employees at McDonald's object to Chris?
(a) His being a loner.
(b) His bad attitude.
(c) His poor hygiene.
(d) His long hair.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is the Stampede Trail still in use?

2. What appears to be Krakauer's main motive in writing Into The Wild?

3. How does Chapter 1 begin?

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

5. In October of 1990, National Park Ranger, what did Bud Walsh discover?

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