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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

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

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

6. Where did Chris's canoe trip eventually take him after going as far as he could down the Colorado River?
(a) He ended up staying with a Mexican family for six weeks.
(b) Some duck hunters agreed to drive him to the Gulf of California.
(c) He headed South and ended up in Acapulco.
(d) He retraced his way back upstream.

7. What similar classic books are favorites of Ruess and Chris?
(a) Look Homeward Angel and Lassie Come Home.
(b) Great Expectations and Gone With the Wind.
(c) Call of the Wild and Around the World in Eighty Days.
(d) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Moby Dick.

8. What had Chris's mother and father offered to do after he graduated from college?
(a) Bring him into the family business.
(b) Give him a trip to Europe.
(c) Help him get a job with their Congressman.
(d) Buy him a new car and pay for his graduate school.

9. What comment does Krakauer make about Chris's fondness for Jack London?
(a) That London lectured against doing exactly what Chris was doing.
(b) That Chris did not recognize London's lifestyle was different from the people he wrote about.
(c) That London's books had all been proven to be false.
(d) That London had never actually been in Alaska.

10. Near what famous landmark did Chris McCandless die?
(a) Mt. Rushmore.
(b) Old Faithful.
(c) Mt. St. Helens.
(d) Mt. McKinley.

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

12. Where had Chris McCandless attended school and graduated with honors?
(a) Harvard University.
(b) Emory University.
(c) Yale University.
(d) The University of Virginia.

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

14. In October of 1990, National Park Ranger, what did Bud Walsh discover?
(a) Evidence of a camp in a restricted area.
(b) A backpack with $123 stuffed inside it.
(c) Chris's old yellow Datsun that had been abandoned.
(d) A rifle that had been buried.

15. What did Chris do with the $24,000 he had left over from his inheritance?
(a) He gave it to the Salvation Army.
(b) He donated it to OXFAM.
(c) He gave it to UNICEF.
(d) He gave it to his sister.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why did the employees at McDonald's object to Chris?

2. After a semester at UCLA and a winter in San Francisco, what did Ruess do?

3. What is the tone of Krakauer's book?

4. How does Chapter 1 begin?

5. Why did Chris adopt the name Alex Burres?

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