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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Davis Gulch?
(a) A watery oasis in the midst of southern Utah.
(b) A cattle passage through western Utah.
(c) A valley that has only one way in and out.
(d) An extension of the Grand Canyon.

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

3. Where did Chris intend to hike?
(a) Along the Alaskan Pipeline.
(b) Southwestward into Canada.
(c) Where no one had ever gone before.
(d) The Stampede Trail, a faint track in the wilderness well off the beaten path.

4. What do some people think about Chris McCandless?
(a) That he had the spirit of Daniel Boone.
(b) That he was a foolish boy who threw away his life.
(c) That he was accident prone.
(d) That he was murdered in Alaska.

5. What was the official verdict on the cause of death?
(a) Lead poisoning.
(b) Pneumonia.
(c) Punctured lungs.
(d) Starvation.

6. How had Chris already been separating himself from his family?
(a) By not speaking to them for months at a time.
(b) By only meeting them occasionally at a restaurant.
(c) By going out of town for holidays and weekends.
(d) By living off campus in a room that had no phone.

7. 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) Christopher McCandless disappeared and no one ever knew what happened to him.
(c) Christopher McCandless hitchhiked to Alaska and entered the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley and four months later, a party of hunters found his body.
(d) An 80-year-old man called OUTSIDE Magazine to tell them about Chris McCandless.

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

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

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

11. Why is the Stampede Trail still in use?
(a) It runs along side of the Alaska Pipeline.
(b) Campers and hunters keep using it instead of making a new one.
(c) People use it to hike to Mt. McKinley.
(d) In the early 1960s, the trail was upgraded by Yutan Construction to an actual roadway.

12. What feat did Waterman achieve in 1978?
(a) He climbed Mt. Hunter's southeast spur on his own.
(b) He walked from Washington, D. C. to San Francisco.
(c) He jumped out of a plane and parachuetted to the top of Mt. Hunter.
(d) He swam the English Channel in record time.

13. What was Chris's plan for after college that he did not tell his family?
(a) He planed to go on an indefinite road trip.
(b) He planed to commit suicide.
(c) He planed to marry a girl his parents did not approve of.
(d) He planed to go live in Mexico.

14. Why does Krakauer include a narrative about moose hunters driving off-road trucks to get to the site Chris eventually found?
(a) To show the difficulties even well-equipped people have in this wilderness.
(b) To provide a bit of humor against the tension of the story.
(c) To put a note of optimism into the story which sustains the suspense.
(d) To explain the existence of the bus where Chris stayed.

15. What did Gallien notice about Chris's boots?
(a) They were old and ripped out at the seams.
(b) They were designed for mountain climbing.
(c) They were too large for his feet.
(d) They were lightweight and not waterproof.

Short Answer Questions

1. Still calling himself by another name, Chris met two drifters who befriend him. Who were they?

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

3. What is Krakauer's thesis about Chris?

4. What is The Slabs?

5. What happened when the moose hunters got to the bus where they plan to camp out?

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