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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 work did Chris (Alex) do while he stayed with Jan and Bob at The Slabs?
(a) Digging ditches.
(b) Selling in their fleamarket books stall.
(c) Acting as a security gurad.
(d) Making hamburgers that he learned how to do at McDonald's.

2. What appears to be Krakauer's main motive in writing Into The Wild?
(a) To justify his own youth.
(b) To win a Pulitzer Prize.
(c) To defend Chris McCandless from his critics.
(d) To sell it to the movies.

3. How were Chris's ideals defined in his own mind?
(a) They were defined by the poetry of E.E. cummings.
(b) They were defined by the works of Phillip Roth and F. Scott Fitzgerald.
(c) He valued chastity and moral purity as defined by Tolstoy and Thoreau.
(d) His ideals were defined by his own sense of injustice in the world.

4. In what area do people who knew Chris agree that he was inexperienced?
(a) Managing money.
(b) Having a relationship with a girl.
(c) Living off the land.
(d) Cooking for himself.

5. Where did Jim Gallien first encounter Chris?
(a) In the library at Fairbanks, Alaska.
(b) Hitchhiking about four miles outside of Fairbanks, Alaska.
(c) In a hardware store in Fairbanks, Alaska.
(d) In a cheap cafe on the outskirts of Fairbanks.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Chris live while he was in Carthage?

2. What is ironic about Krakauer's descriptions of Walt McCandless and that of his rebellious son, Chris?

3. What does Ruess's biographer, Ken Sleight, believe happened to Ruess?

4. To whom did Chris send a postcard from Bullhead City?

5. How did Walt and Billie McCandless learn in Chapter 4 where their son might be?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did there happen to be an abandoned bus where Chris could find it?

2. Tell how Krakauer disliked the assertion from so many people that Chris had foolishly thrown away his life.

3. The man Chris describes as a lunatic, Charlie, holds what kind of opinion about Chris?

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

5. Talk about the indication that Chris was planning for the Alaska trip to be his last adventure.

6. How does Krakauer rebut the idea that Chris was a reckless idiot, a wacko, a narcissist?

7. Tell something about Chris's connection to Jan Burres and her boyfriend Bob.

8. Describe Walt McCandless as a professional and a businessman.

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

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

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