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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Gail believe about Chris's past life?
(a) That his real problem was something that happened between him and his father.
(b) That he was extremely immature and was only being rebellious.
(c) That he had imagined all his problems with his family.
(d) That he was terribly deprived and abused.

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

3. What event happened in April 1992 that prompted the writing of Into The Wild?
(a) Christopher McCandless disappeared and no one ever knew what happened to him.
(b) An 80-year-old man called OUTSIDE Magazine to tell them about Chris McCandless.
(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) There was a volcano that killed a young man named Christopher McCandless.

4. What did Chris tell Gallien his plans were?
(a) To hike from Mt. McKinley to the Gulf of Mexico.
(b) To write a book like Thoreau.
(c) To walk into the wilderness near Denali National Park to live off the land for several months.
(d) To hike as far north as he could go.

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

6. 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 gave his car to his sister and took a bicycle to New York where he went to work on a merchant ship.
(c) He began a backpack trip that he hoped would eventually take him around the world.
(d) He gave away his entire savings to charity, abandoned his possessions, and became a drifter and wilderness explorer.

7. What appears to be Krakauer's main motive in writing Into The Wild?
(a) To justify his own youth.
(b) To defend Chris McCandless from his critics.
(c) To sell it to the movies.
(d) To win a Pulitzer Prize.

8. What did Chris do after Westerberg was jailed?
(a) He kept himself hidden because the police might have been looking for him.
(b) He headed north to Alaska.
(c) He stayed with Westerberg's family until he got out.
(d) He hitchhiked to Needles, California, then walked through the desert to Topock, Arizona.

9. In Chris's relationships with people, what is the most striking contradiction?
(a) His ambivalence to his family and his hatred of the people he met.
(b) His coldness toward his parents and his warmth with people he met in his travels.
(c) His love for his family but his inability to show it.
(d) His hurtfulness toward his family and his refusal to help anyone else.

10. Why did Krakauer include so much about the McCandless family in Chapter 3?
(a) To give the reader an idea that Chris might change his mind.
(b) To make Chris seem thoughtless and cold.
(c) To contrast them with the adoptive Westerberg family.
(d) Just for conversation with Wayne Westerberg.

11. What news seriously alarmed Jan Burres?
(a) That Alex never intended to see any of his family again.
(b) That Alex might be a serial killer.
(c) That Alex was wanted by the Nevada police.
(d) That Alex had burned the last of his money when he abandoned his car.

12. In what way did Chris exhibit a double standard about money?
(a) He now wanted to collect all the money he could to outfit himself for Alaska.
(b) He refused to take money for the work he did, but accepted goods that probably cost as much.
(c) He borrowed money that he knew he could never repay.
(d) He refused to let Jan drive him to pick up his last check at McDonald's.

13. Where did Alex stay outside of Salton City?
(a) Joshua Tree National Park.
(b) Anza-Borrego Desert State Park.
(c) Palm Springs.
(d) Right at Oh-My-God Hot Springs.

14. What device does Krakauer use to open Chapter 1 and subsequent chapters?
(a) A drawing.
(b) A skull and cross bones.
(c) A photograph.
(d) A quotation.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Walt and Billie McCandless discover when they drive to Chris's apartment in Atlanta?

2. What is Davis Gulch?

3. How does Krakauer classify Chris as opposed to the way most people saw him?

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

5. Impressed with Chris's intelligence, what did Franz try to get him to do?

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