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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ruess's biographer, Ken Sleight, believe happened to Ruess?
(a) Accidental drowning.
(b) A robbery and murder.
(c) Falling from a cliff.
(d) Ruess changed his name and disappeared.

2. What did Walt and Billie McCandless discover when they drive to Chris's apartment in Atlanta?
(a) That the building had been torn down.
(b) That he had moved out three months before.
(c) That there was no such address.
(d) That Chris had never lived there.

3. What story does Krakauer tell that resembles Chris's in many ways?
(a) The adventures of Edmund Scott.
(b) The troubles of Carl Jennings.
(c) The loneliness of Henry David Thoreau.
(d) The life of John Mallon Waterman.

4. Why did Christ steal a bicycle in Northern California?
(a) He intended to return and pay for it.
(b) He had always wanted a bike like that.
(c) He was delirious at the time and did not know what he was doing.
(d) The man he worked for refused to pay him.

5. What group of Irish aesthetics does Krakauer include in Chapter 9?
(a) St Patrick monks.
(b) The highlanders.
(c) The papar.
(d) The Celtic travelers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did Chris do with the $24,000 he had left over from his inheritance?

2. How long did Chris survive in that hostile environment?

3. What questions did Chris ask Gallien that impressed the older man?

4. Why was author Jon Krakauer interested in writing Chris's story?

5. Impressed with Chris's intelligence, what did Franz try to get him to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. When Jim Gallien picked Chris up, what went through the back of his mind?

2. Describe the evidence at the opening of Chapter 1 that indicates Chris might have had a premonition about his death.

3. Describe Westerberg's comments to Krakauer two months after Chris died.

4. Discuss the inconsistency of Chris and his ideas about money.

5. What happened to Chris's plan to paddle a canoe from Arizona to the Gulf of California?

6. Why was there a break in Chris's journal entries after he left Las Vegas in 1991?

7. How was Westerberg able to help the police with their further investigation?

8. What kind of place was The Slabs?

9. Describe the first indication that Walt and Billie McCandless had of where Chris might be.

10. How are letters written by Ruess and Chris another point of similarity in their stories?

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