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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Chris left home, why didnn't Carine get upset when he won't tell her where he was?
(a) She didn't want to know because she didn't care.
(b) She knew Chris was happy and thought he would come home some day.
(c) She was glad he was gone so she could have his room.
(d) She thought their father would try to bring him home if he knew.

2. What connection did Jim Gallien make when he read the article about Chris's death?
(a) Chris was the young hitchhiker he had given a ride to the Stampede Trail.
(b) The empty bag of rice the article said the police found in the bus reminded him of the hitchhiker he'd picked up.
(c) The .22-caliber rifle they found in the bus was the same as the hitchhiker's he'd given a ride to.
(d) The rubber boots the news article mentioned were the ones he'd given Chris.

3. What shows Chris's attitude toward injustices that began when he was in college?
(a) He started a soup kitchen in Annandale.
(b) He took classes about world hunger, poverty, wealth distribution and racism.
(c) He began bringing homeless people to his dorm room.
(d) He refused a new car because there were so many people who did not have one.

4. Where did Chris leave from on April 15, 1992 on his journey to Alaska?
(a) Los angeles.
(b) Carthage.
(c) Oregon.
(d) Seattle.

5. What happened 10 months after Chris's death?
(a) Carine had a dream about Chris.
(b) Billie and Walt got a divorce.
(c) The company that owns the bus took it away.
(d) Ten months after McCandless's death, Krakauer, Billie and Walt took a helicopter to the bus site.

6. What is significant about August 5?
(a) It was Chris's birthday.
(b) It was the day he killed the caribou.
(c) It was the day the moose hunters found his body.
(d) It was Chris's 100th day in the wilderness.

7. What did Billie realize as she get to the bus?
(a) The place looked like a frozen desert.
(b) Chris had found the farthest place he could to get away from them.
(c) The terraine looked like where she grew up and that Chris must have loved it.
(d) It was so isolated that no one could remain sane there.

8. What did Chris do the summer after his sophomore year in college?
(a) He spent the entire summer with his sister, Carine.
(b) He returned to Annandale and wrote a flawless software program.
(c) He worked in a garage to make money to buy his Datsun.
(d) He took a cross country hike.

9. How does Krakauer interpret the evidence he gathered about Chris?
(a) He sees Chris as a hopeles greenhorn without any knowledge of the terrain.
(b) He believes that Chris immersed himself in nature in an effort to isolate himself from human society.
(c) He thinks that Chris was completely irrational and contributed to his own death.
(d) He suggests that someone else was in the bus and refused to help Chris.

10. What did the bones outside the bus reveal?
(a) That the bus had been attacked by wolves.
(b) What Chris thought was a moose was actually caribou.
(c) That the animal Chris killed had been eaten by vultures.
(d) That Chris had been unable to kill edible animals.

11. What is significant about the cloth belt Krakauer founds in the bus?
(a) It must have been made when Chris got too thin for his jeans.
(b) Chris probably didn't want to ruin the leather belt he had made at Ron Franz's house.
(c) He seemd to have made it to tie up his paperback books.
(d) Chris had made it to keep himself busy.

12. What is prominently displayed in Carine McCandless's home?
(a) A painting she did of her brother, Chris.
(b) A scrapbook of news clippings about Chris.
(c) Two photographs of her brother, Chris.
(d) All of Chris's track trophies.

13. What emotional experience disturbed Chris while he is staying in the bus?
(a) Watching an otter get captured by an eagle.
(b) Killing a moose and being unable to preserve the meat.
(c) Bad dreams that hinted of his death.
(d) Thinking about his sister.

14. What gift did Walt give Billie after the birth of Chris?
(a) A leather bound copy of Leaves of Grass.
(b) The Gianni guitar that was left in the yellow Datson.
(c) A 3-carat diamond ring.
(d) A vacation in Paris.

15. What two requests did Stuckey make of Alex as they parted company?
(a) Send him photos of his adventure and notify the forrest service where he will be.
(b) Wait until spring and work to get money for better boots.
(c) Change his mind and go back to the Westerbergs.
(d) Write him a letter when he returns and call his parents before he goes into the wilderness.

Short Answer Questions

1. What spurred Krakauer on after his failed attempt to climb Devil's Thumb?

2. Why did Chris write in his journal that he had found the Magic Bus?

3. What family outings did the McCandless family mention to Krakauer?

4. When Krakauer was at the mountain he came to climb, what enhanced his emotions?

5. When did Jon Krakauer interview Walt McCandless?

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