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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. How does Chapter 1 begin?
(a) With a letter Chris writes to his sister.
(b) With a conversation Chris has with an Inuit.
(c) With a postcard written by McCandless, addressed to Wayne Westerberg in Carthage, South Dakota.
(d) With a description of the Alaskan wildeerness.

3. What item of clothing did Chris seem to abhor?
(a) Uniforms.
(b) Socks.
(c) Jeans.
(d) Neckties.

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

5. What problem did Killian have in contacting the authorities?
(a) The ice broke on the river and left it more than a hundred yards wide.
(b) His vehicle broke down and it took hours to fix.
(c) It was difficult to find a place where radio signals could get through.
(d) The other people did not want him to contact the troopers because they did not want to get involved.

6. 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 hurtfulness toward his family and his refusal to help anyone else.
(c) His coldness toward his parents and his warmth with people he met in his travels.
(d) His love for his family but his inability to show it.

7. After a series of misadventures on his way to San Diego, why did Chris call Franz?
(a) To tell Franz that he was in the hospital.
(b) To come pick him up.
(c) To see if he had gotten any mail.
(d) To ask him to send money.

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

9. What prevented Jan and Bob from going to Bullhead City to pick Chris up?
(a) A series of freak desert storms.
(b) Their mobile home broke down.
(c) He arrived at their door before they could leave.
(d) Information that they were wanted by the police.

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

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

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

13. What problem did the authorities have after removing Chris's body?
(a) Finding enough tissue to autopsy.
(b) Getting the body to Fairbanks.
(c) Keeping the body frozen.
(d) Identifying him.

14. What is ironic about Krakauer's descriptions of Walt McCandless and that of his rebellious son, Chris?
(a) Walt and Chris believe in the same socialistic things.
(b) Krakauer describes Chris and Walt McCandless as being very similar, both stubborn and temperamental individuals.
(c) Walt had always been kind and generous but Chris had always been aloof.
(d) Chris was a carbon copy of his father when he was that age.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What human contact did Chris have as he hikeed West from Lake Mead?

2. What response does Krakauer report that he got from his OUTSIDE Magazine article on Chris?

3. What story does Krakauer tell that resembles Chris's in many ways?

4. What did Chris do on frequent visits to Franz's apartment in Salton City?

5. Why is the Stampede Trail still in use?

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