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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What happened 10 months after Chris's death?
(a) The company that owns the bus took it away.
(b) Carine had a dream about Chris.
(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.

3. How was Westerberg able to help the police?
(a) He had Chris's fingerprints on file.
(b) He had Chris's Social Security number on file.
(c) He told them Chris graduated from Emory University.
(d) He had a photo of Chris's yellow Datsun with the license plate showing.

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

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

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

7. What does Carine recall that Chris loved so much?
(a) The Gianni guitar.
(b) Reading Moby Dick.
(c) Her dog, Buck.
(d) His yellow Datsun.

8. What information does Gallien provide the police?
(a) That Alex's real name was Chris McCandless.
(b) That Alex was coughing bad when he dropped him off.
(c) That Alex had mentioned a friend named Ron in California.
(d) That the young man had called himself Alex and had come from South Dakota.

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

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

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

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

13. What is so poignant about the final photograph Chris took of himself holding his good-bye note?
(a) His emaciated frame contrasts with the smile on his face.
(b) It is blurry because he was too weak to hold the camera steady.
(c) He doesn't realize that he is holding the note upside down.
(d) The end of his good-bye note says he will see everyone in a month.

14. What kind of business do Carine and her husband operate?
(a) A daycare for the elderly.
(b) A publishing company.
(c) An electronics shop.
(d) An auto repair business.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What gift did Walt give Billie after the birth of Chris?

2. What evidence does Krakauer find that suggests Chris was ready to re-enter society?

3. What was the tender moment between Chris and his father right after Chris graduated from high school?

4. What did Billie realize as she get to the bus?

5. Why did the Candless family not follow the route Chris had taken to get to the bus as Billie wanted?

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