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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. What similarity is there between Jon's relationship with his father and Chris's relationship with Walt?
(a) Both fathers were weak willed and seldom gave their children advice.
(b) Secrets were revealed and both young men resented the hypocracy.
(c) Both fathers were old and out of touch.
(d) Both fathers turned out to be bigamists.

5. 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 had a dibilitating auto accident.
(d) She was diagnosed with cancer.

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

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

8. Who gave Krakauer dinner and a place to sleep in Petersberg?
(a) A kind woman named Kai Sandburn.
(b) A drifter named Jan Buress.
(c) The captain of a tuna fishing boat.
(d) A policeman offered him a jail cell.

9. What characteristic of his father's does Krakauer mention as a flaw?
(a) That his father could never admit to being wrong.
(b) That his father was too kind to everyone.
(c) That his father worked too many jobs.
(d) That his father never climbed a mountain.

10. When Krakauer was at the mountain he came to climb, what enhanced his emotions?
(a) The clean air which gave him an oxygen high.
(b) The beauty of the snowy terrain and clear sky was intensified for him by his solitude.
(c) Two sturdy aluminum curtain rods with him, lashed in a cross shape, to prevent him from falling into a crevasse.
(d) The cheers of the people who came to see him off.

11. What did Krakauer do similar to what Chris did when he needed to go to the village of Petersberg?
(a) He bought a big bag of rice.
(b) He abandoned his car.
(c) He burned his money.
(d) He sent postcards to friends.

12. 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.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Chris leave from on April 15, 1992 on his journey to Alaska?

2. What is prominently displayed in Carine McCandless's home?

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

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

5. At the time of publication of the notice of Chris's death, what problem did the police have?

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