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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 did Westerberg give Chris?
(a) A ride to Alaska.
(b) A job on his combine crew.
(c) A meal and a room for the night.
(d) A pair of rubber boots.

2. How do Waterman and Chris differ?
(a) Chris burned his money, but Waterman always had money with him.
(b) Chis was short and Waterman was very tall.
(c) Chris was afraid of the water and Waterman feared heights.
(d) Chris was able to make friends, Waterman was socially awkward.

3. What is ironic about Krakauer's descriptions of Walt McCandless and that of his rebellious son, Chris?
(a) Walt and Chris believe in the same socialistic things.
(b) Krakauer describes Chris and Walt McCandless as being very similar, both stubborn and temperamental individuals.
(c) Walt had always been kind and generous but Chris had always been aloof.
(d) Chris was a carbon copy of his father when he was that age.

4. 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.

5. Impressed with Chris's intelligence, what did Franz try to get him to do?
(a) Clean up and get a good job.
(b) Get an education.
(c) Start teaching young people.
(d) Write a book about his travels.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Chris's canoe trip eventually take him after going as far as he could down the Colorado River?

2. Where did Jim Gallien first encounter Chris?

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

4. What alias did Ruess carve on the walls of the canyon?

5. Why did Chris decide to go to San Diego?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. Discuss the difference between Chris's treatment of his parents and the way he treated strangers.

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

4. How does Krakauer compare and contrast Chris and his father?

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

6. What kind of place was The Slabs?

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

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

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

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

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