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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Billie leave in the bus?
(a) A set of steel plates and cups.
(b) Three heavy blankets.
(c) A suitcase filled with emergency food supplies.
(d) A down coat and some matches.

2. 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.

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

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

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

6. What sad discovery does Krakauer make just a quarter mile down stream on the river?
(a) There is a ranger station stocked with all kinds of food.
(b) At the now defunct station, a steel cable stretches across the river with an aluminum basket suspended from this cable by pulleys.
(c) There is an old bridge that a person could walk across.
(d) There is evidence that Chris came that far and went back.

7. What ambitions did Jon Krakauer's father have for all of his children?
(a) That they would excell in sports.
(b) That they would attend Ivy League schools.
(c) That they would all enter the family business.
(d) That they would leave home and be on their own after high school.

8. Why does Krakauer relate his own experiences in Chapter 14?
(a) To prove that he had no right to write about Chris.
(b) To see if he is any different now as a mature man.
(c) To show his affinity with Chris.
(d) To show how he was so much better than Chris.

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

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

11. What is significant about the cloth belt Krakauer founds in the bus?
(a) He seemd to have made it to tie up his paperback books.
(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) Chris had made it to keep himself busy.

12. 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.

13. A year after Chris's death, what did Krakauer observe on the banks of the Teklanika River where Chris had been unable to cross?
(a) The river was overflowing its banks.
(b) There are dangerous rocks just under the surface of the water.
(c) The ice was breaking up and the footing was dangerous.
(d) The river is indeed a wide, churning flow of water.

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

15. How did the police know Chris's real last name?
(a) From his virginia driver's license.
(b) From the note he had taped to the bus door.
(c) From his Social Security card they found in his wallet.
(d) From his journal.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Chris left home, why didnn't Carine get upset when he won't tell her where he was?

2. What connection did Jim Gallien make when he read the article about Chris's death?

3. How did Chris travel the 1,000 miles from Laird, Alaska, to Fairbanks?

4. How does Krakauer interpret the evidence he gathered about Chris?

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

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