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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. In Chris's relationships with people, what is the most striking contradiction?
(a) His hurtfulness toward his family and his refusal to help anyone else.
(b) His coldness toward his parents and his warmth with people he met in his travels.
(c) His love for his family but his inability to show it.
(d) His ambivalence to his family and his hatred of the people he met.

2. Why does Krakauer include a narrative about moose hunters driving off-road trucks to get to the site Chris eventually found?
(a) To show the difficulties even well-equipped people have in this wilderness.
(b) To provide a bit of humor against the tension of the story.
(c) To explain the existence of the bus where Chris stayed.
(d) To put a note of optimism into the story which sustains the suspense.

3. What comment does Krakauer make about Chris's fondness for Jack London?
(a) That London had never actually been in Alaska.
(b) That Chris did not recognize London's lifestyle was different from the people he wrote about.
(c) That London's books had all been proven to be false.
(d) That London lectured against doing exactly what Chris was doing.

4. What did Chris tell Gallien his plans were?
(a) To walk into the wilderness near Denali National Park to live off the land for several months.
(b) To hike as far north as he could go.
(c) To write a book like Thoreau.
(d) To hike from Mt. McKinley to the Gulf of Mexico.

5. Who does Krakauer mention who had done something similar to what Chris did and survived?
(a) The first man to climb Mt. McKinley.
(b) Gene Rosellini, the Mayor of Hippie Cove.
(c) Thor Heidahl who sailed the Pacific in a canoe.
(d) Albert Swartz, a modern day Thoreau.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Franz offered to give Chris a ride to his campsite, what is it he didn't know?

2. At what point did Chris stop writing in his journal?

3. What food was Chris extremely fond of?

4. How does Chapter 1 begin?

5. Why did Christ steal a bicycle in Northern California?

Short Essay Questions

1. Explain the origins of the Stampede Trail.

2. What kind of place was The Slabs?

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

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

5. Explain why Gallien decided not to notify the authorities of Chris's plan.

6. Why does Krakauer include the story of Everett Ruess in Chapter 9?

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

8. Explain Chris's lack of readiness for his Alaskan adventure.

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

10. When hunters discovered Chris's body in September of 1992, what did they decide to do?

(see the answer keys)

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