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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 similar classic books are favorites of Ruess and Chris?
(a) Great Expectations and Gone With the Wind.
(b) Call of the Wild and Around the World in Eighty Days.
(c) Look Homeward Angel and Lassie Come Home.
(d) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Moby Dick.

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

3. What is the tone of Krakauer's book?
(a) Compassionate.
(b) Defiant.
(c) Angry.
(d) Fearful.

4. What unusual political action did Waterman take after his climb?
(a) He ran for President of the United States.
(b) He applied to go to West Point.
(c) He campaigned for LBJ.
(d) He got elected to the Fairbanks School Board.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. After surviving 10 years living off the land, what became of Rosellini?

2. Who had carved a passage from the creek up to the dry gulch?

3. Still calling himself by another name, Chris met two drifters who befriend him. Who were they?

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

5. What was the official verdict on the cause of death?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

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

4. What is Krakauer's summary of Chris's actions during the time he was looking for work to save up for Alaska?

5. Explain the origins of the Stampede Trail.

6. What did Chris do in the Anza-Borrego Desert State Park?

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

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

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

10. Discuss Chris's abandonment of his beloved Datsun.

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