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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 event happened in April 1992 that prompted the writing of Into The Wild?
(a) There was a volcano that killed a young man named Christopher McCandless.
(b) Christopher McCandless disappeared and no one ever knew what happened to him.
(c) An 80-year-old man called OUTSIDE Magazine to tell them about Chris McCandless.
(d) Christopher McCandless hitchhiked to Alaska and entered the wilderness north of Mt. McKinley and four months later, a party of hunters found his body.

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 Chris had never lived there.
(c) That he had moved out three months before.
(d) That there was no such address.

3. What is Davis Gulch?
(a) A cattle passage through western Utah.
(b) A valley that has only one way in and out.
(c) An extension of the Grand Canyon.
(d) A watery oasis in the midst of southern Utah.

4. How had Chris already been separating himself from his family?
(a) By only meeting them occasionally at a restaurant.
(b) By going out of town for holidays and weekends.
(c) By not speaking to them for months at a time.
(d) By living off campus in a room that had no phone.

5. Why was author Jon Krakauer interested in writing Chris's story?
(a) Krakauer identifies with McCandless's attraction to nature and to high-risk activities, and also understands the young man's troubled relationship with his father.
(b) Krakauer had nothing better to do at the time and thought he would enjoy visiting all the places Chris had gone.
(c) Krakauer recognized that Chris's story would be a sure-fire best seller and be made into a movie.
(d) Krakauer wanted to pass judgement on Chris in the hopes of preventing another young man from doing the same.

Short Answer Questions

1. What steps did Walt and Billie take to find Chris?

2. Although Waterman became something of a local hero, what job did he have in Fairbanks?

3. After a semester at UCLA and a winter in San Francisco, what did Ruess do?

4. How does Chapter 1 begin?

5. Where did Chris McCandless come from?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why do people still come to the site where the bus stands?

2. What are some particulars about Alex (Chris) deciding to go to San Diego?

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

4. Why does Krakauer mention the papar at the end of Chapter 9?

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

6. What is a literary parallel between Chris and Ruess?

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

8. What is clear about the author's intentions in writing this book?

9. Describe Jim Gallien's difficulty contacting the Alaska state troopers.

10. Explain why Krakauer traveled to Carthage, South Dakota.

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