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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What trait did sports reveal in Chris?
(a) He was lazy about training.
(b) He did not take defeat well.
(c) He was not interested in competition.
(d) He wanted other people to win.

3. What does Krakauer think actually killed Chris?
(a) The wild potato seeds he was eating.
(b) Poisonous leaves he was reduced to eating.
(c) Tainted canned goods he found in the bus.
(d) Choking on rabbit bones.

4. How does Roman Dial, who teaches at the University of Alaska, interpret Chris's actions?
(a) Roman admires McCandless's efforts but would not undertake them himself.
(b) He thinks the native Alaskans are right to condemn Chris.
(c) He agrees that Chris was borderline neurotic.
(d) Roman thinks no one should ever attempt what Chris did.

5. Why did the Candless family not follow the route Chris had taken to get to the bus as Billie wanted?
(a) There was no time to take that route as Chris had done.
(b) The Teklanika River was running too high, and the group was advised not to attempt it.
(c) The river had changed course and Chris's route was no longer possible.
(d) They did not have good directions from Chris's journal.

6. How did Chris travel the 1,000 miles from Laird, Alaska, to Fairbanks?
(a) A truck driver named Gaylord Stuckey picked him up.
(b) Jim Gallien gave him a lift.
(c) He walked most of the way.
(d) Hitchhiking, he got a series of rides.

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

8. What family outings did the McCandless family mention to Krakauer?
(a) Going to the Grand Canyon every year.
(b) A beach house in Cape Cod.
(c) A yearly trip to Texas.
(d) Camping trips with an Airstream Trailer.

9. What important work does Walt McCandless do?
(a) Advanced radar technology.
(b) Biochemist.
(c) Nuclear physicist.
(d) CIA undercover.

10. Chris's parents had moved, but his step brother was contacted. After he positively identified Chris, what did he do?
(a) Flew to Alaska to claim the body.
(b) Told his wife that he always knew Chris would end that way.
(c) Drove to Maryland to inform Chris's parents.
(d) Contacted Gillien to get more information.

11. What was the skeleton in Walt's closet that stressed the whole family, Chris in particular?
(a) Walt kept a mistress after Chris went to college.
(b) Walt had affairs with several women.
(c) Walt had lived a bigamist life for some years after Chris was born.
(d) Walt and Billie divorced but later remarried.

12. What did Walt leave in the bus?
(a) A flashlight and some batteries.
(b) A book about edible plants in the area.
(c) A memorial plaque.
(d) An emergency radio operated by a hand crank.

13. In light of his own experiences, what does Krakauer think of Chris's tactics?
(a) They are exemplary.
(b) Except for a bit of bad luck, Chris was right to do what he did.
(c) They are understandable but not justifiable.
(d) More young people should do what chris did.

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

15. What was in the McCandless house that speaks to the feelings of Walt and Billie McCandless toward Chris?
(a) All of Chris's track trophies lined up on the mantle.
(b) Clippings of newspaper articles and magazine stories about Chris.
(c) No photos of Chris in the house.
(d) A photo memorial to Chris on the dining room table.

Short Answer Questions

1. How far did Chris travel on the Stampede Trail before he located the abandoned bus?

2. What two requests did Stuckey make of Alex as they parted company?

3. Why does Krakauer relate his own experiences in Chapter 14?

4. What kind of business do Carine and her husband operate?

5. Why does Krakauer think Chris could not excrete poison from his body?

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