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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What evidence does Krakauer find that suggests Chris was ready to re-enter society?
(a) Chris had written down the names and addresses of everyone who had helped him so he could visit them again.
(b) The graffiti Chris drew on the bus indicated he wanted to see people again.
(c) Chris's journal indicated that he was beginning to doubt Thoreau.
(d) Doctor Zhivago, a book Chris was reading, includes that genuine happiness must be shared with one's fellow human beings and Chris had made a note beside that passage.

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

3. 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 took a cross country hike.
(d) He worked in a garage to make money to buy his Datsun.

4. 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 thinks that Chris was completely irrational and contributed to his own death.
(c) He suggests that someone else was in the bus and refused to help Chris.
(d) He believes that Chris immersed himself in nature in an effort to isolate himself from human society.

5. How far did Chris travel on the Stampede Trail before he located the abandoned bus?
(a) Twenty miles.
(b) Forty miles.
(c) A mile and a half.
(d) Ten miles.

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

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

8. At the time of publication of the notice of Chris's death, what problem did the police have?
(a) They had no response from the public about the body.
(b) They had been unable to identify him.
(c) They did not have forensic labs in that part of Alaska.
(d) They had beed unable to get the body out.

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

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

11. What spurred Krakauer on after his failed attempt to climb Devil's Thumb?
(a) His mood after he naps.
(b) A spider that keeps working after its web breaks.
(c) The prospect of defeat.
(d) The fact that he has enough food to try again.

12. What did Billie find in the bus?
(a) One of Buck's dog collars.
(b) A spoon from an old family silverware set.
(c) Photos of her and Walt.
(d) A coffee mug with the family monogram on it.

13. What happened to Billie in July of 1992?
(a) She had a nervous breakdown.
(b) She had a vivid dream of Chris calling her for help.
(c) She was diagnosed with cancer.
(d) She had a dibilitating auto accident.

14. When did Jon Krakauer interview Walt McCandless?
(a) A year after Chris died.
(b) Never. He would not speak with Krakauer.
(c) On what would have been Chris's birthday.
(d) Seven weeks after Chris's body was recovered.

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) Write him a letter when he returns and call his parents before he goes into the wilderness.
(c) Change his mind and go back to the Westerbergs.
(d) Wait until spring and work to get money for better boots.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the police know Chris's real last name?

2. What does Carine recall that Chris loved so much?

3. What does Krakauer think actually killed Chris?

4. What did Krakauer do similar to what Chris did when he needed to go to the village of Petersberg?

5. A year after Chris's death, what did Krakauer observe on the banks of the Teklanika River where Chris had been unable to cross?

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